The colorful material weighed over 5 pounds and was likely made to decorate an emperor’s palace, Italian officials said.

New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome - Visitors can walk over the map in the museum in ...

Now certainly there would have been color involved in that, and we know that for the emperors, nothing was too expensive. Question for Goldman: We were in Rome last week looking at the Colosseum.

The Emperor Constantine passed a law in 325 ... After the Western Roman Empire began to collapse in the late fourth century, Rome’s Colosseum fell into disrepair.

Emperor Nero’s vast imperial residence in ancient Rome, have discovered containers still carrying the splendid pigments artisans used to decorate the palace complex almost 2,000 years ago. Among the ...

Excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of the rare Egyptian ...

Archaeologists excavating near the Colosseum found a rare chunk of Egyptian blue pigment dating back about 2,000 years. Photo from Simona Murrone and the Colosseum Archaeological Park Across the ...

The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. The emperor ruled over the Roman Empire, a bit like a king. Find out below about some of the emperors who influenced Britain.

He also completed work on the Colosseum and opened it with ... “Master and God” As emperor, Domitian was hated by the Roman aristocracy, largely because of his cruelty and showiness.

In back-to-back wars fought between A.D. 101 and 106, the emperor Trajan mustered tens of thousands of Roman troops, crossed the Danube River on two of the longest bridges the ancient world had ...