The monument complex in Rome believed to be the site of Julius Caesar’s death

Julius Caesar, the most prominent and famous of all the Roman rulers was stabbed on the 15th of March, 44BC – known as the Ides of March. We know this thanks to the many classical texts detailing the event. For the first time, archaeologists suspect they may have found physical evidence.

Julius Caesar was stabbed to death 23 times by a group of conspirators in the Roman Senate, led by Brutus. The spot of his death is suspected to be at the base of the Curia, also known as the Theatre of Pompey, which many classical authors have reported as the site of Julius Caesar’s death. Here archaeologists have unearthed a concrete structure believed to have been erected by Augustus, Julius Caesar’s successor, as a condemnation of his assasination.

An attempt is now being made to combine these physical discoveries with classical texts and art, to help gain a clear picture surrounding Julius Caesar’s death. Antonio Monterroso, a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council, said in a statement:

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.

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.

[Source: MSNBC]