When Alaric, warrior-chief of the Visigoth nation, died of disease in A.D. 410, his people buried him in their traditional way: laying his body in a riverbed and allowing the current to cover it ...

This has led historians to suggest he was a Goth mercenary in the Roman Army. The large bones date to about 400AD, just 10 years before Rome itself fell to Visigoth invaders, and tests showed he was ...