The ancient ruins of Roman Emperor Nero’s private theater were discovered in Rome, according to multiple reports, giving archaeologists access to a historical site that had eluded them for years.

Ruins of a private theater belonging to the 1st century Roman Emperor Nero have been unearthed in the Italian capital just meters from the Vatican, in what experts are calling an “exceptional” find.

The theater belonging to Rome’s fifth emperor Nero was discovered Thursday just outside the wall of the Vatican. Rome’s Palazzo dei Penitenzieri, otherwise known as the Palazzo della Rovere, has been ...

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The long-lost ruins of Roman Emperor Nero's private theater were discovered this week, solving a mystery that had stumped archeologists for decades. The ruins are believed to be where the infamous ...

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman coins ...

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 ...