June 455 AD · Italy Theater
June 455 AD
Sailing from Carthage, Genseric's Vandals landed unopposed and entered an undefended Rome. Pope Leo I persuaded Genseric to spare the inhabitants from massacre and fire, but for two weeks the Vandals stripped the city of its remaining treasures — including, it was said, the spoils of the Jewish Temple that Titus had carried there nearly four centuries before.
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