Ancient Rome · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Vandal sack of Rome (455)
On the Ancient Rome map as “The second sack”
Jun 455 — Geiseric’s Vandals strip Rome for fourteen days, methodically, down to the gilded temple roof-tiles. The word “vandalism” is their unearned epitaph — they burned nothing.
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- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (chapter 11 of Ancient Rome)
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- The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
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