The Ashes of Julius Caesar.
UNEARTHED IN THE FORUM.
WHERE C-rESAR'S ASHES WERE FOUND. I While some workmen were recently engaged at the work of excavation in the Forum j at Rome they came across the column raised j by the Emperor Augustus to the memory of j Julius Csesar. Close by was a slab of stone j where the body of Caesar was burned, and it \ was close to the edge of this stone that the ashes of the great Emperor, enclosed in an urn, were found. Since this discovery others of great interest and value have been made in the Forum. ' A column and some fragments and inhcrip- . tions of the ancient Temple of Vesta have | been brought to light, together with the I room where the vestals consumed the ancient 1 fire. In this room were found tho asheb of the ancient fire and a handsome statue of Alinerva, which, according to the ancient histories, had been transported from Troy to Rome by iEneas.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2373, 24 August 1899, Page 61
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The Ashes of Julius Caesar.
Otago Witness, Issue 2373, 24 August 1899, Page 61
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