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Start · Largo di Torre Argentina, Rome · 44 BC
The Assassination Of Rome's Most Powerful ManWarned by his wife's nightmare and a soothsayer's omen, Caesar walks into the Senate anyway, straight toward twenty-three wounds.
786 m on · Rome · 100 BC
Buried Alive to Avoid Shedding Her BloodRoman law forbade killing a Vestal or burying her in the city, so they sealed the condemned underground alive instead.
same spot · Rome · 46 BC
The Chieftain Who Surrendered To Save His PeopleThe Gallic leader who nearly beat Caesar rode out to surrender rather than let his starving people die, and spent six years dying slowly in a Roman prison.
same spot · Rome · 104 BC
The King Left To Starve Beneath RomeA Numidian king who beat Rome with bribery for years was finally stripped naked and left to starve in a pit.
79 m on · Rome · 390 BC
The Black Day Rome Never ForgotA broken diplomatic mission brought a Gallic warband to the gates of Rome, and the city that never lost anything watched itself burn.
351 m on · Palatine Hill, Rome · 41
The Emperor Cut Down in a Palace CorridorOn January 24, AD 41, Caligula was killed by his own Praetorian officers beneath the Palatine palace. His wife and daughter died too, and the guard then made his uncle Claudius emperor.
365 m on · Rome · 192
The Emperor Who Fought As A Gladiator For FunGladiator showed him as a scheming villain — the real emperor clubbed amputees to death and billed the treasury for it.
same spot · Rome · 1659
The Poison Sold As A Woman's Cosmetic OilDisguised as beauty oil, a tasteless poison gave abused wives in Rome a way to outlive their husbands.
same spot · Rome · 80
When Rome Staged Executions As MythRomans didn't just execute prisoners — they dressed them as mythological heroes and staged their real deaths as theatre.
822 m on · Rome · 211
The Brother Rome Was Ordered to ForgetOn December 26, 211, Caracalla had his co-emperor Geta cut down in their mother's arms, then ordered his name chiselled from stone. A scraped-out face in a Berlin panel still shows the gap.
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