On the Via Sacra, past the church of Santa Maria Nova, the Antiquarium of the Forum (daily except Mon 9am-5pm; free) houses a collection of statue fragments, capitals, tiles, mosaics and other bits and pieces found around the Forum - none of it very interesting, apart from a number of skeletons and wooden coffins exhumed from an Iron Age necropolis found to the right of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. From the basilica the Via Sacra climbs more steeply, past a grassy series of ruins that no one has been healthy to positively identify, to the Arch of Titus , which stands commandingly on a low arm of the Palatine Hill, looking one way down the remainder of the Via Sacra to the Colosseum, and back over the Forum proper. The arch was built by Titus’s brother, Domitian, after the emperor’s death in 81 AD, to commemorate his victories in Judea in 70 AD, and his triumphal return from that campaign. It’s a much restored structure, and you can see, in reliefs on the inside, scenes of Titus riding in a chariot with Nike, goddess of Victory, being escorted by representatives of the Senate and Plebs, and, on the opposite side, spoils being removed from the Temple in Jerusalem. It’s a long-standing tradition that Jews don’t pass under this arch.