Spot where Julius Caesar was stabbed discovered, The ides of March

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Archaeologists believe they have found the first physical evidence of the spot where Julius Caesar died, according to a new Spanish National Research Council report.

 

Caesar, the head of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death by a group of rival Roman senators on March 15, 44 B.C., the Ides of March. The assassination is well-covered in classical texts, but until now, researchers had no archaeological evidence of the place where it happened.

 

Now, archaeologists have unearthed a concrete structure nearly 10 feet wide and 6.5 feet tall that may have been erected by Augustus, Julius Caesar's successor, to condemn the assassination. The structure is at the base of the Curia, or Theater, of Pompey, the spot where classical writers reported the stabbing took place.

 

"We always knew that Julius Caesar was killed in the Curia of Pompey on March 15th 44 B.C. because the classical texts pass on so, but so far no material evidence of this fact, so often depicted in historicist painting and cinema, had been recovered," Antonio Monterroso, a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council, said in a statement.

 

Classical texts also say that years after the assassination, the Curia was closed and turned into a memorial chapel for Caesar. The researchers are studying this building along with another monument in the same complex, the Portico of the Hundred Columns, or Hecatostylon; they are looking for links between the archaeology of the assassination and what has been portrayed in art.

 

"It is very attractive, in a civic and citizen sense, that thousands of people today take the bus and the tram right next to the place where Julius Caesar was stabbed 2,056 years ago," Monterroso said.

 

Source : http://www.msnbc.msn..._utmk=153131320

[Robbie the Wise 5,050]

That's actually really cool, I've added this to my places to visit when I start studying abroad.

[Snow 1,800]

Wasn't there an Assassin's Creed game where you killed that guy? http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.png

[Kirux 1,224]

Very very interesting, wish there was more text on it, not just a little tiny report like that. /Oh well

[VanitasisKirby 1,227]

Very interesting! ^^ I wish there was more to it.

[Zola 3,038]

Et tu, Brute?

[LordOfTheCastle 92]

It looks like a Call of Duty Multiplayer map.

 

So that's what was going on... Call of Bruté

[Cricket 1,180]

Very interesting o.o

It looks pretty too

I hope there is more news on this later.

[NightfallXIII 68]

Sweet! Funny, the field show the marching band at my school is doing is based on Julius Caesar, although I don't think we actually cover the part where he got stabbed, and there are some factual errors made by the announcer and the voiceovers.

[Amon 4,279]

The Senators had the wrong idea about Caesar. How could you call a man power hungry when he turns down three offers to become Emperor?

[Xail 113]

I started studying the play in class today. coincedence

[Weedanort 8,787]

Whoa, that sounds interesting.

 

Too bad it's really far away, or else I would go there