Wednesday, August 23, 2006
This Day in Ancient History
On this day in 410 AD, the end of the grandeur that was Rome. Alaric the Goth breaks the aqueducts on the Campanian side and the city is stormed and sacked. Other aqueducts are broken thereafter and the city becomes a ghost of its former self for centuries.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:06 AM 
