Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

This story appears in the October 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... originally came from Italy and were hired by one of the city’s elite. Perhaps a Roman official wanted Pompeii ...

This story appears in the September 2014 issue of National Geographic ... ever humming Roman boulevard and directly on top of where Nero’s artificial lake had been, sits the Colosseum.

The ancient Roman Colosseum will be the venue of gladiator fights for the first time in two millennia under a $1.5 million ...

This was in October 2022 during a two-week train trip through Italy ... and reenactments, National Geographic reports. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Colosseum was damaged ...