Divers find Caesar bust that may date to 46 B.C.
PARIS - Divers trained in archaeology discovered a marble bust of an aging Caesar in the Rhone River that France's Culture Ministry said Tuesday could be the oldest known.
The life-sized bust showing the Roman ruler with wrinkles and hollows in his face is tentatively dated to 46 B.C. Divers uncovered the Caesar bust and a collection of other finds in the Rhone near the town of Arles — founded by Caesar... :
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Julius Caesar is perhaps my favorite character in all of history . . . warrior, statesman, scholar, philosopher, and excelled at them all! He was a greater man than those who destroyed him, or than any who succeeded him. It is awesome to see an image of him that may have been sculpted from life, or at least from living memory.