Sorry call me a cynic but I do not believe this story.

dean, Sydney, Australia

Sorry but the bust looks more like Galba 68 - 69 CE Similar features to the bust in the Capitoline Museum Rome

Mark A, Perth, West Australia

well, they were related..uncle/nephew...

Claudia, Cincinnati,

I think it looks more like Augustus.

Carter, Midwest, US

I certainly hope that it is Caesar. It's a very expressive face. I've been reading a lot about Caesar in particular (and Roman history in general) in the last few months. The details of those times are fascinating.

Rick, Columbus, OH, USA

I agree with Antonia; Where is the full view???

Steve, Plainfield CT, USA

Frank is right. Or rather, George W. Bush looks like Julius Caesar. A very odd coincidence!

Sandy, Vancouver, Canada

George Bush is going to leave office on noon January 20, 2009, in a lawful and Constitutional way. He is neither a Caesar, nor a dictator; rather, he is a man whose vision for America and its role in the world clashed with those of Europe and the Middle East, and thus was unable to achieve them.

Gregory Baker, Odenton, Maryland, USA

Charles, Your article states that the bust has been "authenticated" as Caesar's--how and by whom please? And how was it placed within such a short time span? Also, two other statutes were found in the river, including one of Neptune, which, to me, weakened the assassination argument. More details!

Josephine, Southborough,

my favourite bust is Caracalla. He looks nearly as evil as he was!

Nigel, Whitby, u.k.

Horace, Florence -- Don'ìt compare The Americans with the Romans, please. The House White is made following Vitruvio and Palladio. The Roman Empire lasted for centuries, the American are at the beginning.At a certain point every nation
wants to be Roman, but only the Romans were the Romans.

andrea, Firenze,

Mary Beard, the Times' blogger on all things classical, has a very different view of this. So does every reputable archaeologist and historian.

See:
"The face of Julius Caesar? Come off it!"
http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2008/05/the-face-of-jul.html

Mark, Jhb,

Please, don't compare the great Cesar to Bush

andrea, Firenze,

This is amazing. It is like finding a protohuman fossil from 2m years ago. The chances are near zero.Cesear indeed died 2000years ago but his historical legacy is such that we are still very much in his shadow.

Leslie Udwin, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

He's looking good for it's final years. He was a great man, always trying to reach his idol Marius. Go Ceasar.

Arthur, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Man this guy ruled the knowned world, cool. Conquering Gaul maybe was maybe his difficult task. I "give the Caesar what is the Caesar's"
cheers

Robin, Barlad, Romania

WOW, is all I can say. This bust really is different from other, more stylized busts of Roman nobles. What a wonderful find. I feel like I am looking into the real face of Caesar for the first time. (I sort of agree with the other post that states he looks a bit like George Bush).

Leslie, Chicago, USA

He has a look of michael woods the historian about him if you ask me

John, Manchester,

Isn't possible that these pieces were tossed into the river during the second world war to save them from the hands of the Nazis with the intention of retrieving them after the war?

Stephen, Philadelphia, United States

Arnold - Arles is most definitely Transalpine Gaul. Fortunately Caesar had a better knowledge of geography.

James , London,

He looks like a monkey.

Carly, Detroit,

Fitting that his living bust should be found in Cisalpine Gaul.
He didn't shape Europe, he actually invented it.
The invasion of Gaul (France) and its social and cultural Romanisation halted the barian invasions from the East for 350 years...
And I shan't say more!

Arnold Attard, Bergamo, Italy

A bit stony-faced, I thought.

bertie, Brighton,

he looks like paul scholes.

francis cottam, Kingston upon Thames, England

The Romans were the Americans of the past. They were masters at building and/or modernizing infrastructures and had an imperialistic attitude towards other populations, but from a cultural and artistical point of view they were way behind the Greeks (who can be seen as today's Europe).

Horace, Florence, Italy

Not bad looking for an old fella

Brijit , Paris, France

He shaped Europe and thus our modern world.

Joe Marvullo, New York, USA

Surely - not best to crop the photo, especially if you go on to describe his bald head? Can't we see it too?

Antonia, London, UK

there is always a new true face of someone...bye bye

cleo, rome, italy

When I saw the picture, the first thing I thought is that this looks nothing like any image of Caesar I've ever seen. And indeed, not one feature seems to match up. Compare and contrast:

http://www.plnewsforum.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/32959/

ScottM, Spokane, WA, USA

He looks like Charles Bremner to me...

Malcolm, Rome, Italy

Doesn't he look like George W Bush?

Frank Upton, Solihull,