Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) claim that they have found the accurate spot in Rome where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death on March 15, 44 BC.
This picture shows a general view of the monumental complex in Torre Argentina, Rome, where Julius Caesar was stabbed (CSIC)
Roman texts depict that Julius Caesar was assassinated at Curia of Pompey by a group of senators.
“We always knew that Julius Caesar was killed in the Curia of Pompey on March 15th 44 BC because the classical texts pass on so, but so far no material evidence of this fact had been recovered,” said Dr Antonio Monterroso, CSIC researcher with the Institute of History of the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Inside the Pompey’s Theater in Rome’s historic Torre Argentina square, the archaeologists found a 3 m (9 feet) wide and over 2 m (6 feet) high concrete structure that had been erected by order of Augustus, Caesar’s adopted son who took power upon his death.
“We know for sure that the place where Julius Caesar presided over that session of the Senate, and where he fell stabbed, was closed with a rectangular structure organized under four walls delimiting a Roman concrete filling. However, we don’t know if this closure also involved that the building ceased to be totally accessible,” Dr Monterroso said.
“It is very attractive that thousands of people today take the bus and the tram right next to the place where Julius Caesar was stabbed 2056 years ago,” he said.
