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 ...

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, ...

Barbarian peoples—Swabians, Vandals, Alans, Visigoths, Franks, and Burgundians—cross the border into the Western Roman Empire to settle. At times they put themselves at the service of Rome.