Everyone’s heard of Attila the Hun – the world-class barbarian with the insatiable appetite for conquest. What everyone doesn’t know, however, is how that very same savage met his lovey-dovey end. The truth is, ol’ Attila didn’t drop dead commanding troops on the battlefield, but rather while celebrating his bond in matrimony. More specifically, Attila kicked the bucket the night of his twelfth wedding in 453 CE. Partaking in more marital merrymaking than he could apparently handle, the middle-aged king burst an artery and made his earthly departure. Of course, his funeral was no ordinary affair. For his burial, Attila’s followers – having placed his body in a gold coffin inside a silver coffin inside a lead coffin filled with treasures for the afterlife – decided to take every precaution against grave robbery. So they diverted a tributary of the Danube River, buried the coffins under the exposed riverbed, and then diverted the water back on its original course, the river now flowing over the burial site. As for the slave workers who now knew the exact location of the site, they were killed soon afterward – a gesture that would’ve surely brought a smile to old Attila’s face were he not dead and buried in three coffins under a river.