Sensitive and handsome, Nero (37 – 68 AD / reigned 54 – 68 AD) started out well as emperor. But his early promise gave way to wild extravagance and murder. His rule ended as violently as it ...

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently ... for more than 1,400 years, its use of color could very well live on in some ...

Agrippina began her quest for power by persuading Claudius to bring back Seneca from exile so that he could become tutor to her own son, Nero, the boy she planned to make an emperor. Gradually ...

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 ...