The archaeological site was discovered by chance in 1955, when a walnut tree was removed. Merovingian burials were then discovered. Escolives has been inhabited since the Neolithic period. Although remains of this period and protohistory have been discovered, it is the Gallo-Roman period that is best known on the commune. An occupation began at the beginning of the 1st and until the end of the 6th century AD. You can see the residential part of a very large villa. The thermal baths of this complex are particularly well preserved, as is the capture of the source that supplied the complex with water.