Nero was the emperor of Rome from A.D. Oct. 13, 54 to June 9, 68 (lived A.D. 37 to 68). He became the ruler of the Roman Empire after the death of his adopted father, the Emperor Claudius.

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'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.

“Nero: The Man Behind the Myth” explores the true story of Rome’s fifth emperor informed by new research and archaeological evidence from the time.

Nero by Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen (1620) Wikimedia Commons. But are any of these stories that feed our popular conception of the emperor Nero actually true? We’d like to tackle two of the ...

It's Nero 2.0. Certainly when it comes to historical revisionism, few could benefit more from a kinder, gentler second look than the Roman Emperor Nero — best known in the popular imagination ...

“Nero is famed as the Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned, a tyrant who was cruel and ruthless towards his family and a somewhat pathetic megalomaniac prone to excess,” the British Museum ...

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 ...

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 ...