The secret room, which has been buried for an estimated 2,000 years, is nicknamed the “Sphinx Room,” according to ANSA. It’s just one of many rooms in the massive Domus Aurea, which is part ...

A small crack in a vaulted ceiling led archaeologists to a new room of the Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” the immense pleasure palace built by the emperor Nero after a fire devastated Rome in ...

The Domus Aurea was built on Oppian Hill, and it was almost completed when Nero committed suicide as he was overthrown in 68 AD. It is a testament to Roman engineering just how fast the massive ...

The Sphinx Room was uncovered by accident as the archaeologists continued to restore the palace, which was built after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 A.D. Known as "the Golden House" or Domus Aurea ...

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 ...

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 ...