Sack of Rome

Legends tell that Alaric, King of the Visigoths, who sacked Rome in the fifth century AD, was buried along with his horse and a vast amount of treasure, in the bed of the Busento River in the Cosenza province of southern Italy. But have the archaeologists and treasure hunters been searching in the wrong place? [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"59661","attributes":{"alt":"King Alaric. Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)(Public Domain)","class":"media-image","height":"450","style":"width: 448px; height: 450px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"448"}}]] King Alaric. Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)( Public Domain ) Alaric, Rise of the King and Break with the Romans Alaric, whose name means 'King of all', was born in 370 AD in Peuce, along the banks of the Danube, in present-day Romania. He is a descendant of the noble Balti family