400, had experienced more extraordinary circumstances than most Roman cities.

The City That Was Rebuilt And Besieged

To understand why a young man might have been hiding in a giant jar inside a burning gate tower, you need to understand what kind of place Deultum was — and what kind of world it found itself in around the turn of the fifth century.

Deultum was one of the earliest Roman colonies in the Balkan region.

Founded in the first century A.D. — traditionally during the reign of the emperor Vespasian, roughly around A.D.