Hidden Vault Unearthed Beneath the Ruins of Roman Emperor Nero’s Palace, Featured an Array of Murals Archaeologists have made ...

While the coins were buried during Nero's reign, some of them were minted earlier. All but one of the coins in the hoard are silver denarii, a standard Roman coin, that were minte ...

Excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of the rare Egyptian ...

Such undertakings cost money, which Roman emperors typically procured by raiding other countries. But Nero’s warless reign foreclosed this option. (Indeed, he had liberated Greece, declaring ...

When he became emperor, Nero was a young man who enjoyed the theater ... Without any heirs, the Roman Empire now had no leader. With the ultimate prize up for grabs, rival generals began moving ...

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.

In A.D. 68, the Praetorian guard, the forces in charge of protecting the emperor, removed Nero as ruler and soon ... a standard Roman coin, that were minted between 157 B.C. and A.D. 55, according ...