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 ...

"We hear about the siege, they tell us these people rebelled against the Romans, but we don't know why." Fregellae sat about ...