It was at the mouth of the Lao River, which formed the boundary between Lucania and Bruttium in ancient times and gave it its name.

[1][2][3] The archaeological site of the city can be found at a short distance to the east of Marcellina, near Santa Maria del Cedro in Calabria.

[4] Herodotus states that the inhabitants of Sybaris who had survived the destruction of their city in 510 BC took refuge in Laus and Scidrus.

Dated to the second half of the fourth century BC, it is now exhibited in the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia in Reggio Calabria.

In the south-east of the site, near the present cemetery, an area of artisanal kilns for the production of ceramics was discovered.