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Caligula's Murder Scene Unearthed

Saturday, October 18, 2008

http://internetservices.readingeagle.com/blog/moviehouse/caligula.jpgArchaeologists restoring the imperial residences on the Palatine Hill, in the heart of ancient Rome, believe they have discovered the underground passageway in which the despotic Emperor Caligula was murdered by his own guards.

[Left: Actor Malcolm McDowell as "Caligula"]

The hill, which his honeycombed with ruins of palaces and villas, has also yielded frescoes and black-and-white mosaics in the first century B.C. home of a patrician, the mi...


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