The Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix surrenders to Caesar at Alesia. Painting by Lionel-Noel Royes (1852-1926) 

Model of Pompey's Theatre complex. The area shown in blue is present-day Largo Argentina. The four temples within predate the Theatre, of which little remains. Pompey's Curia, where Caesar was murdered, is marked with a red dot.    

Largo Argentina - view from the temples towards the Curia, which hasn't been excavated because it lies beneath the street and the 5-storey white building.

Close-up of entrance to Pompey's Curia.

Passageway of the white building is directly above the crime scene.

'Assassination of Caesar' by Vincenzo Camuccini (1771-1844)

This plaque, on the wall of Caesar’s temple in the Forum, describes his funeral and subsequent deification.

Believed to be one of the few portraits of Caesar made during his lifetime, it was in the Cologne Museum, but disappeared during WW2 and has never been traced.

Marble tablet that recounts the career of Caesar’s father. He held the offices of military tribune, quaestor and praetor, and founded the colony of Cercena in northern Italy. He died suddenly at Pisa when his son was sixteen.

Via Sacra, leading to the Forum. Caesar's four triumphal parades passed along here.

Looking back down the Forum. Caesar's official residence as Pontifex Maximus was adjacent to the Via Sacra.    

End of Via Sacra, with the Capitoline Hill in the background.

The Forum, from the Capitoline Hill. Caesar's temple is marked with a red square.

'Memento Mori' mosaic from Pompeii, used in the intro to HBO's epic drama "Rome". Photographed at Naples Museum by Mary Harrsch, October 2007.

Typically Caesarian Eagle.

This strange bust is in a new underground passageway that links the two buildings of the Capitoline Museum. I've never seen anything like it before, but think it might be funerary. If you have information about it, please get in touch. 

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