A section of Ancient Roman Emperor Nero's vast underground Domus Aurea (Golden House) was reopened to the public on Friday after extensive restoration and repair work to protect the nearly 2,000 ...

Emperor Nero's lost theatre is FOUND: Archaeologists discover venue built by tyrant who slept with his mother, killed two of his wives and 'fiddled' while Rome burnt.

In Rome, archaeologists at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero's grand palace, have made a striking discovery: an uncommonly large Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known ...

Emperor Nero's reign was tumultuous, marked by internal strife and challenges to authority. Nero's reign ended with his ...

When Emperor Claudius died suddenly in A.D. 54, Nero succeeded him to the throne at only 16 years old, leapfrogging over other members of the Julio-Claudian ruling dynasty.

Ruins of a private theater belonging to the 1st century Roman Emperor Nero have been unearthed in the Italian capital just meters from the Vatican, in what experts are calling an “exceptional ...

Nero, the great-great-grandson of both the emperor Augustus and Mark Antony, was made emperor of Rome in AD54 at the tender age of 16. He was manoeuvred on to the throne by his mother, who ...

Emperor Nero, who ruled as the Roman Empire's fifth emperor from A.D. 54 to 68, was a controversial sovereign who built public structures and won military victories abroad, but also neglected ...

The theater belonging to Rome's fifth emperor Nero was discovered Thursday just outside the wall of the Vatican. Rome's Palazzo dei Penitenzieri, otherwise known as the Palazzo della Rovere, has ...