Here are seven things you may not know about Nero: 1. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle, the emperor Claudius Nero’s father, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, died when he was only 2 years old.

It was Agrippina, Claudius’s fourth wife, who had maneuvered her son into pole position. She had persuaded Claudius to adopt Nero in A.D. 50, and then to allow Nero to marry Claudius’s ...

Nero’s preeminence over Claudius’s younger son, Britannicus, was assured. Claudius’s health was generally poor and a death by natural causes would have been quite plausible.

In Rome, archaeologists at the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero's grand palace, have made a striking discovery: an uncommonly large Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known ...

Nero was the emperor of Rome from A.D. Oct. 13, 54 to June 9, 68 (lived A.D. 37 to 68). He became the ruler of the Roman Empire after the death of his adopted father, the Emperor Claudius.

A metal detectorist uncovered the hoard of 1,368 ancient coins, mostly silver denarii from the Roman era, in a pot in Worcestershire. The oldest coin in the treasure dates from 157 BCE, and the ...

Nero, who was enthroned in Rome in 54 A.D., at the age of sixteen, and went on to rule for nearly a decade and a half, developed a reputation for tyranny, murderous cruelty, and decadence that has ...

Museums & Institutions Fiddling Schmiddling! The British Museum Has Set Out to Prove That Infamous Roman Emperor Nero Wasn’t So Bad The exhibition is on view through October 24, 2021.

A Roman bust of Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus is being returned to Germany after it was bought for $35 in a Texas Goodwill store. San Antonio Museum of Art via AP The San Antonio Museum of Art ...

Nero and the ChristiansThe story of the treatment of Christians by Nero in A.D. 64, throwing them to wild beasts and burning their smeared bodies as torches, has been used not only by the author ...