Two of Herculaneum's most famous and beautiful domus reopened Wednesday after a 25-year restoration. The domus in the Roman town buried by Vesuvius along with Pompeii in 79 AD are the House of the ...

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 ...

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.