Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic pigment.

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.

This organizational sophistication highlights the scale and ambition of Nero’s project, which transformed the heart of Rome following the great fire of 64 ... ingot at the Emperor Nero’s palace ...

Yet forest fire is not even the deadliest real and ... Now the US is ruled by a latter-day Emperor Nero, who is no fan of California’s progressive culture or climate-friendly policies, isn ...

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago. Today, they remain landmark destinations. As Los Angeles approaches its ...

It is there where Emperor Nero supposedly watched the Great Fire of Rome, strumming a lute as he dreamed of the new city he hoped would arise from the ashes. Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

A man who was seen riding through smoke and flying embers in the Pacific Palisades attempting to flee with as many of his belongings as possible was reunited with two of his beloved paintings ...

None of those changes were as stark as those wrought by the Eaton fire in January, which ravaged the neighborhood, destroying Davis’ home, his art studio and so many of the locations he had ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit over insurance payments for five artworks destroyed in a 2022 house fire in west Michigan, among them three paintings by the French impressionist Claude ...

"Everybody thought it would always be me that set off the fire alarm ... and I did, but it had nothing to do with my art," she says. "Our microwave in the kitchen malfunctioned when I was heating ...