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 had begun.

The story of Emperor Nero is one of the most infamous in the history of the Roman Empire filled with ambition, excess, and controversy. This video traces Nero’s rise to power, key events of his reign ...

The back of the newly deciphered papyrus. It wasn't unusual in the ancient world for texts to be written on both sides. The back of the newly deciphered papyrus. It wasn't unusual in the ancient world ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Based on accounts written during and after his reign, Nero (A.D. 37 to 68) has long been ...

“I am not setting out here to rehabilitate Nero as a blameless man,” curator Thorsten Opper says. “But I have come to the conclusion that almost every single ...

Archaeologists in Rome think they may have found the ruins of Nero's theater, a first-century imperial performance space that was widely described in ancient Roman texts but whose whereabouts had ...

Caligula and Nero were two of the more problematic emperors of Rome, after the fall of the Republic, and rise of the rule by emperors. Caligula was seen as a good leader for the first few years of his ...

ROME (CNN) — Ruins of a private theater belonging to the 1st century Roman Emperor Nero have been unearthed in the Italian capital just meters from the Vatican, in what experts are calling an ...