Pillars of Egypt Traditional Cache
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Welcome to Egypt!
This is an Egyptian caching adventure.
Put yourself in the right frame of mind and you'll see pyramids & experience camels trekking across the desert.
Here we see the remnants of what once stood a mighty Egyptian structure, now there are only a few massive columns still standing.
During the reign of the great kings of Egypt, roughly between 3,050 BC and 900 BC, at least thirty distinct column styles evolved.
The earliest builders carved columns from enormous blocks of limestone, sandstone, and red granite. Later, columns were constructed from stacks of stone disks.
Some Egyptian columns have polygon-shaped shafts with as many as 16 sides. Other Egyptian columns are circular.
The ancient Egyptian architect Imhotep, who lived in 27th century B.C, is credited with carving stone columns to resemble bundled reeds and other plant forms.
The columns were placed close together so they could carry the the weight of the heavy stone roof beams.
Common Features on Egyptian Columns: Stone shafts carved to resemble tree trunks or bundled reeds or plant stems Lily, lotus, palm or papyrus plant motifs on the capitals (tops) Bud-shaped or campaniform (bell-shaped) capitals Brightly painted carved relief decoration
Memorable moments for this cache:
FTF: Co-FTF KC7DQM & airrooster 9-13-2012.
100th finder:
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