Sensitive and handsome, Nero (37 – 68 AD / reigned 54 – 68 AD) started out well as emperor. But his early ... drama and athletics. However, like Caligula before him, Nero had a dark side.

A hoard of 1,368 coins, most of them silver, has been discovered in a pot by a metal detectorist in Worcestershire, a county in England.

The Roman emperor ... Nero had started the blaze, and later accounts claim he played the fiddle while the city burned. This can’t be true since fiddles didn’t exist in Roman times (although ...

Although places like Ephesus, Philippi ... 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 ...