Although not as famous a tourist destination as other Roman icons like the Colosseum (which was actually built within the grounds of Nero’s famous palace), the Domus Aurea featu ...

In the ruins of Rome’s opulent Domus Aurea palace, archaeologists have uncovered an array of ancient pigments used by artisans to paint the walls of the emperor Nero’s stately marble home with ...

The Roman artist Fabullus conceived of even the smallest details of the Domus Aurea’s decoration, including paintings of mythical creatures, fanciful architecture, and naturalistic fauna.( ...

The palace is called the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, erected by and for Nero. When the 30-year-old emperor’s crazed world exploded in A.D. 68, and he ordered a subject to drive a knife through ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was a Roman ...

“The fascination conveyed by the depth of blue of this pigment is incredible,” says Alfonsina Russo, the director of the Colosseum Archaeological Park, which manages the Domus Aurea, in a ...