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 ...

On the grounds of Emperor Nero’s grand palace, where legendary parties once shocked and amazed, archaeologists have uncovered a giant chunk of pure Egyptian blue pigment, roughly the size of a ...

This story appears in the September 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Underneath Rome’s Oppian Hill, today a modest public park marred by unclever graffiti, where young men idly kick ...

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...

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.

Renovation of the new residence for Emperor Naruhito and his family, the former Fukiage Sento Palace on the Imperial Palace grounds, has been completed and is ready for a September move-in date.