Last summer, the ornate ruins of Nero’s Theater were discovered during excavations of a Renaissance building in Rome, Italy. The imperial structure has been mentioned in several ancient Roman ...

To the immediate southwest of this wing of the Domus Aurea, just across an ever humming Roman boulevard and directly on top of where Nero’s artificial lake had been, sits the Colosseum.

Rome was appalled. Matricide – the murder of one’s own mother – was among the worst possible crimes. Tolerance of Nero’s depravity ebbed away and Rome faced a series of bad omens.

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 ...

President Donald Trump is being compared to Emperor Nero for spending the weekend playing golf after his tariff announcement triggered a market collapse. The legend surrounding the Roman Emperor ...

Some said Trump was unintentionally comparing himself to the mad Roman emperor Nero — who, so the saying goes, "fiddled while Rome burned" Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been ...

Brought back from exile, he and his friends would virtually rule Rome in the first years of Nero's reign. The second son of a wealthy family, Seneca was educated in the philosophy of the Sextii.

Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in making Poppea the new empress, but soon he faces ...

The restoration of the ancient lighthouse at Patara, originally built by the Roman Emperor Nero, has been completed after five years of work following ...

Nero is accused of having "fiddled while Rome burned" and remembered for executing his mother and burning Christians alive. History has sided against him on all counts, but could there be another ...