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According to legend, he was buried with his treasure by slaves in the bed of the Busento river. The slaves were then killed to hide its location. [106] The Visigoths elected Ataulf, Alaric's brother-in-law, as their new king. The Visigoths then moved north, heading for Gaul. Ataulf married Galla Placidia in 414, but he died one year later.
After sacking Rome in 410, the Visigoths fled to southern Italy, in Calabria.There their king, Alaric suddenly died from illness and was buried with his treasure in an unknown river, often reported to be the Busento.
Imaginative portrait of Alaric in C. Strahlheim, Das Welttheater, 4.Band, Frankfurt a.M., 1836. According to Jordanes, a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat of Gothic origin—who later turned his hand to history—Alaric was born on Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube Delta in present-day Romania and belonged to the noble Balti dynasty of the Thervingian Goths.
Alaric I marches southwards into Calabria and makes plans to invade Africa. But a storm destroys his Gothic fleet and many of his soldiers drown. Alaric dies in Cosenza, probably of fever, and his body is buried along with his treasure under the riverbed of the Busento. He is succeeded by his brother-in-law Ataulf, who becomes king of the ...
Archaeologists and students recently discovered a treasure trove consisting of 160 ... who was king of Judaea from 103 B.C. to 76 B.C. ... largest of its kind in Israel, found buried in 2,100-year ...
The idea of treasure maps leading to buried treasure is considered a fictional device. There are cases of buried treasure from different historical periods, such as the Dacian king Decebalus and Visigoth king Alaric I, who both changed the course of rivers to hide their treasures. Legends of buried pirate treasure have existed for centuries ...
Historical treasures hidden for decades have been uncovered in the crypts of a cathedral, ... or Aleksandras Jogailaitis, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, who lived from 1461–1506.
The silver bracelets were found in what was likely the same place they were originally buried, offering more insight into to the origin story of the treasure. Silver was the Vikings’ treasure of ...