Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was a war general and Roman politician who is mainly responsible for the Roman Empire’s expansion. He crossed the Rhine River and the English Channel and subsequently invaded Britain. After refusing to step down from command to avoid arrest, Caesar re-entered Roman Italy from Gaul under arms, which lead to a civil war. There have been many sculptures of him like this one here, but in 2018, a realistic rendering of the military genius’s head was created.
Julius Caesar
What Julius Caesar Really Looked Like
A lifelike bust of Julius Caesar can be found in Leiden’s National Museum of Antiquities. One of Caesar’s marble portraits were scanned using 3D technology and the results were used to create this 3D reconstruction. After the Roman civil war that Caesar won, he began reigning as a dictator, starting governmental and social reforms and even granting citizenship to people who lived in the Roman Empire’s farthest regions. The Senate’s elite members were not pleased by Caesar’s reign, so they assassinated him in 44 B.C.
What Julius Caesar Really Looked Like
