Nick Squires is The Telegraph’s Rome correspondent, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and the Balkans. He has reported for the paper since 2000, having previously covered Australia, New Zealand and ...

Italian divers are to search for the long-lost remains of a ceremonial barge built for Roman emperor Caligula 2000 years ago. Caligula, notorious as one of Rome's most eccentric and sadistic rulers, ...

For centuries fishermen on little (one square mile) Lake Nemi, 20 miles from Rome in the Alban Hills, reported mysterious fouling of their nets and shadowy hulks beneath the blue-grey water on clear ...

The utility of an antique coffee table in a Manhattan apartment took a sudden, historic turn when New York prosecutors swung by to pick it up. No, they hadn’t seen it on Craiglist, thinking, “Wow, ...

Nineteen centuries of foundered orgy looked up at the hydroairplane which last week waltzed high over Lake Nemi in the Alban hills back of Rome. And Giuseppe Cultrera, Etruscan scholar in the plane,* ...

Divers will set out tomorrow to find the original ‘booze cruise’ ...the long-lost remains of a ceremonial barge built for the depraved Emperor Caligula 2,000 years ago. Caligula, one of Rome’s most ...

The bloodthirsty Roman emperor had his own pleasure boat which boasted hot running water, gold mosaics and naked women THE hunt is on to find playboy and bloodthirsty Roman emperor Caligula’s ...

Nick Squires is The Telegraph’s Rome correspondent, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and the Balkans. He has reported for the paper since 2000, having previously covered Australia, New Zealand and ...

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Today, the serene waters of Lake Nemi make it a quaint getaway, one that is best known for its peaceful landscapes and the area's delicious wild strawberries. But in ancient Roman times, the volcanic ...