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Two beautiful domus reopen at Herculaneum after 25 years
Two of Herculaneum's most famous and beautiful domus reopened Wednesday after a 25-year restoration. The domus in the Roman ...
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A Pigment That Defined the Renaissance Was Just Discovered in the Ruins of Nero’s ‘Golden House’
The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the ... (though scholars doubt he really played a fiddle while Rome burned), he was also an emperor of creation, overseeing the ...
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Bright blue chunk found in Rome turns out to be rare 2,000-year-old material. See it
Across the street from the Colosseum in Rome, Italy ... Archaeologists sifted through the ruins of the Domus Aurea, also known as the Golden House of Nero, as part of an ongoing project, the ...
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Paolo Portoghesi's home studio on sale for 490,000 euros
In Calcata, in the Lazio region, 200 square metres designed by the internationally renowned architect are on sale by Christie ...
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Sculpture showing typical Roman houses
Despite Rome’s glorious architecture ... including those who lived in the countryside – lived in a domus. This was a house built around an unroofed courtyard, or atrium.
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Rethinking Nero
Underneath Rome’s Oppian Hill ... The palace is called the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, erected by and for Nero. When the 30-year-old emperor’s crazed world exploded in A.D. 68, and he ...