Ahead of its digital release this April, a trailer has arrived online for the historical comedy-drama Seneca. Directed by ...

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

The palace is called the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, erected by and for Nero. When the 30-year-old emperor’s crazed world exploded in A.D. 68, and he ordered a subject to drive a knife through ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have made a stunning discovery beneath the ruins of Emperor Nero’s sprawling palace, unearthing a hidden vault that has remained buried for nearly 2,000 years. Dubbed the ...

It holds your hands through the foundation of Rome, with excessive concern dedicated to the Aeneid, to the rise of the republic and the imperial period, then of Christianity and the splintering of the ...

The 2,000-year-old lighthouse in the ancient city of Patara, built by Roman Emperor Nero in CE 64, is set to illuminate once again after centuries, as restoration efforts reach their final stages.

He argues that not only was the empire well governed during Nero’s nearly 14 year reign (AD 54-68), but that the emperor was by no means as maniacal as his reputation would have it. Drinkwater’s case ...

Widely criticized after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, the Emperor Nero tried to divert attention away from his own failings by providing an easy scapegoat: the Christians. Although the ...