A Pigment That Defined the Renaissance Was Just Discovered in the Ruins of Nero’s ‘Golden House’
The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...
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Hidden Vault Unearthed Beneath the Ruins of Roman Emperor Nero’s Palace, Featured an Array of Murals
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 ...
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Rethinking Nero
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 ...
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Nero to zero: The rise and fall of a brutal Roman emperor
The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most ... persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune on a huge palace. At the same time, he organised games and chariot races and performed ...
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Bust of Claudius in later life
Discovered trembling in the palace by one of his own soldiers ... Claudius was dead. Nero was Emperor. This would prove interesting.
Why we’re stuck in Ancient Rome
It holds your hands through the foundation of Rome, with excessive concern dedicated to the Aeneid, to the rise of the ...
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Nero’s grand palace reopens: Visitors can now explore the legendary Domus Aurea
Roman Emperor Nero is most famous in popular imagination for playing the fiddle while Rome burned. Now his grand royal residence is once again open to the public.