The villa – located about 100km from Rome – was built 80 years before Fregellae’s siege around 205 BC, and is the oldest structure of its kind uncovered in the region, archaeologists say.

The first documented use of a siege ladder was in 537 CE in Rome. It then disappeared from the history books for many centuries, reappearing in accounts of the llth Century Crusades. We hypothesize ...

According to archaeologists, the canal was supposedly built after Sulla's siege of Pompeii during the Social War (91-87 BC), a conflict between the Roman Republic and several autonomous allies ...