“The greatest man that ever lived,” Alexander Hamilton once told Thomas Jefferson, “was Julius Caesar ... emperor's image captured in this mock portrait by eastern German artist Martin ...

The bulk of the credit for standardizing New Year's Day goes to Julius Caesar, who seized absolute power over Rome in 46 B.C., only to find that the mighty empire's calendar was hopelessly broken.

A rare Roman coin featuring the portrait of Brutus, the assassin of statesman Julius Caesar, sold Monday at a Geneva auction for 1.98 million euros, according to organiser Numismatica Genevensis.

(MENAFN) A rare Roman coin featuring the portrait of Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caesar, was sold for 1.98 million euros (USD2.08 million) at a Geneva auction on Monday, according to ...