Nero is one of the most infamous of Rome's emperors, but he may not be the complete tyrant history remembers.

It is almost 2,000 years overdue, but the world, it seems, owes an apology to the Roman emperor Nero.

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 ...

The lost theatre of Nero has been found beneath the walled garden of what is soon to be a hotel resort just steps away from the Vatican in Rome.

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero's grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, have unearthed an extremely rare and rather big Egyptian blue pigment ingot ...

Was Nero really a monster? Rome experienced some of its greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a murderous psychopath to a depraved tyrant ...

Archaeologists say the ornate ruins of Nero’s theater were found near the Vatican at a site earmarked for a luxury hotel ...