The weapon may have been a funeral offering for a fallen member of the Vandals, a Germanic tribe renowned for sacking Rome in the fifth century. In January, two detectorists with the Inventum ...

Barbarian peoples—Swabians, Vandals, Alans, Visigoths ... culminating in the Goth invasion of Italy and the sack of Rome in 410. As Gothic hordes looted the capital that year, the Huns were ...

After reviewing the available evidence, he looks at the origins of the Vandals, Gaiseric’s early life and rise to kingship, and his life-long struggle with Rome. In the process of telling this story, ...