While the Vandals did sack Rome in A.D. 455, they spared most of the city's inhabitants and didn't burn down its buildings. "Despite the negative connotation their name now carries, ...

The first sack of Rome wasn't when you think it was. The Gauls—not the infamous Vandals or Visigoths—were the first to conquer Rome and plunder the city for its wealth.

The second sack of Rome, in 455 AD, was even more vicious than the first. As with ISIS, this time the spectacle of vandalism was not the misdemeanor crime of conquest. For the Vandals, from whom, of ...