The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...

A rumor had spread of Nero’s behavior during the fire: although he hadn’t fiddled while Rome burned, he had been singing. With Nero’s mother dead and his tutor retired, the emperor was ...

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Myth-believers to the end, Bruschini would conclude, the same who believed that foolishness about fiddling while Rome burned and who would fail to appreciate the tragedy of Nero’s final day ...

It was rumoured that Nero had started the blaze, and later accounts claim he played the fiddle while the city burned. This can’t be true since fiddles didn’t exist in Roman times (although ...

When the BBC called to talk about my letter to Caffé Nero, the one protesting over their tax-dodging activities, I realised I must have hit a nerve. Tax, tax evasion and tax avoidance aren’t the most ...