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 ...

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 ...