The palace is called the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, erected by and for Nero ... like a UFO. A painting depicts Rome in flames on July 18, A.D. 64. “THE FIRE OF ROME,” CA 1770-1790, BY ...

Constructed by the emperor Nero and born from the ashes of the massive A.D. 64 fire that destroyed the city ... and courage to try the force of art even against the veto of nature,” what was ...

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 ...

An Egyptian blue pigment has just been unearthed beneath the Domus Aurea. A priceless discovery that tells us more about the arts in ancient Rome.

The Roman emperor Nero is known ... Prof Maria Wyke explores Nero's motivation for having his mother killed. 4. Nero probably didn’t start the fire in Rome... In 64 AD, much of Rome burned ...

A great fire ravaged Rome in A.D. 64 and, according to an apocryphal story, Nero played a fiddle during it. In A.D. 68, the Praetorian guard, the forces in charge of protecting the emperor ...

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 ...