SEARCHERS NOTE AT END OF DESCRIPTION
This cache is part of my “River Nile” series. If you want THAT to make sense, you need to read the description for “Sauce of the Nile” (GCB2PFQ)
There will be a Bonus Cache associated with this series. The information needed to locate the cache can be found on the logs of selected caches on the Oran Park side of Camden Valley Way. This section of the series is still being completed.
Unfortunately, not all of South Creek has features that reflect something significant about the River Nile. So some caches are a little more “generic” than others. The caches representing part of the White or Blue Nile are named for a colour variation of white or blue. Caches representing part of the Nile proper (as this one is) are named for someone/something else significant in the history of Egypt (often a pharaoh). Who needs a pyramid when you can be immortalised in a geocache?
Possibly the best-known of the pharaohs in our time, Tutankhamun was fairly obscure, almost forgotten in fact, amongst the approximately 170 who ruled down the 3,200 years that Pharaohs reigned in the land. This obscurity may have been the very thing that kept his tomb undisturbed down the centuries after his death in approximately 1323 B.C. Becoming pharaoh at 8 or 9 years of age, and dying at 19 years of age, the list of his “accomplishments” reflects an image of a child king manipulated by the powerful and traditional priestly class.
His father, Akhenaten, had up-ended Egyptian life and values by abandoning the country’s traditional polytheism and establishing a monotheistic national religion. Readers’ reward … Low. He had also moved the nation’s capital away from Thebes, the priest’s power base. But after only 2-3 years as pharaoh, Tutankahmun restored the cult of Amun-Ra (changing his name from “Tutankhaten” … “the living image of Aten”) in the process and thereby placing his imprimatur on the old cult, officially returned the country to polytheism, and re-established Thebes as the national capital.*
His importance in the modern era results from Howard Carter's discovery of his tomb and mummy in 1922, both of which were incredibly well-preserved, along with all the goods that had been buried with him.Virtually all the tombs of other pharaohs have been looted in antiquity. Nothing comparable to this tomb has ever been found, before or since its discovery.
All up, it took about 3250 years for King Tut’s Tomb to be found. That’s a pretty low branch … you can do better!! Unlike Howard Carter, you can do it WITHOUT HAVING TO MOVE OR LIFT ANYTHING!
SEARCHERS NOTE ... Keep the tradition going. Please find without looting! Preserve site in your searching. Roll log tightly and place IN LID PORTION of cache when closing.
*Source … pbs.org
Jogger Dodger! Laimelde picked the gaps and picked up the prize. FTF congrats!!