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 ...

Since the fires, a gradual hollowing out, and even abandonment, of Los Angeles has already begun. With the threat of earthquakes, fires and volcanic eruptions, Jonathan Margolis talks to the experts w ...

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 ...

Emperor Nero's reign was tumultuous, marked by internal strife and challenges to authority. Nero's reign ended with his mother's and wife's murders, the great fire in Rome in 64 CE, and finally ...

Archaeologists in Rome have discovered beautiful, ancient paint—but not just any paint ... Archaeologists excavating the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero’s vast imperial residence in ancient Rome ...

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 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 ...