This month, as a direct result of the heat wave and water shortages across much of Europe, an ancient bridge reappeared in the Tiber in Rome. The structure, which was supposedly built by Emperor Nero ...
Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, the ancient Roman city of Baiae. From the first century to the third century AD, Baiae was the ...
He is known as a cruel tyrant who played his lyre while Rome burned. That’s exactly what his enemies wanted you to think, the curators of a new exhibition argue. By Farah Nayeri LONDON — The mangled ...
Dusk, and as the shadows lengthen over the streets of ancient Rome, the early evening quiet is shattered by a chorus of piercing screams. It is the beginning of another of Emperor Nero's infamous ...
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 ...
Rhenn is a Manila-based content writer with a love for all things geek and pop culture, and science and technology. He graduated BA Journalism degree as a Cum Laude, and has since then pursued making ...
This story appears in the September 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Underneath Rome’s Oppian Hill, today a modest public park marred by unclever graffiti, where young men idly kick around ...
IN 2008 THE British Museum hosted a blockbuster exhibition about Hadrian, a Roman emperor whose reign (117-138AD) has never ceased to fascinate. Generations of historians have grappled with his ...
Rhenn is a Manila-based content writer with a love for all things geek and pop culture, and science and technology. He graduated BA Journalism degree as a Cum Laude, and has since then pursued making ...
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