Four Sanctuaries for The Gods: Area Sacra di Largo Argentina in Rome http://bit.ly/24m7dLP
An ancient secret is buried in front of us—just meters below our current street level. Four years ago Spanish researchers of the Institute of History of the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (CCHS-CSIC 2012) localized the supposed place of the murder of Gaius Julius Caesar by a sensational finding on the Largo di Torre Argentina, right in the middle of the heart of the city.
Caesar was murdered by his political opponents on the Ides of March (44 BC), when he was Dictator of the Roman Republic. The agitation of Roman senators like Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus set the historical background for this event. Most antique sources point out that Caesar’s stabbing to death took place somewhere between the theatre or Curia of Pompey and the Hecatostylon (hall of one hundred columns). But how can we be sure of that?
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