According to popular stories, Nero was suspected of being the mastermind behind the fire in 64 CE, during which he allegedly played a fiddle. In 60 CE, Boudica, the queen of the Iceni tribe in Britain ...

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 ...

It was rumoured that 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 ...

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 ...

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