What – to dip briefly into the world of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian – did the Romans ever do for us? Apart, of course, from ...

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 ...

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 Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD) marked the first brutal civil war of the Roman Empire, plunging the empire into chaos after Nero’s death. In this video, we explore the power struggles, shifting ...

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 ...

A marble statue of Nero on loan from the Louvre in Paris is seen at the Landesmuseum in Germany in 2016. Harald Tittel/Picture Alliance via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s first term saw a ...

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 ...

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