Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...
The Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” is perhaps the most recognizable and widely known symbol of Emperor Nero’s extravagant ambitions; built between 65 and 68 AD after the Gr ...
After a contractor working on a project near Varna, Bulgaria, (where Odessos was located during the era of the Roman Empire) discovered the statue, Vasil Tenekedjiev—expert with the Regional ...
“Of all the works of antiquity that escaped destruction,” German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann once said of the Apollo Belvedere, a beloved sculpture from the ...