This geocache is locked by a combination padlock. To get the combination you must solve a puzzle using the clues on the outside of the geocache container. The puzzle takes about 3 minutes to solve. When you think you have the right combination, press down on the lock shackle to open it. Please scramble the letters and and lock the container when you are done.
There is a walking path that you can follow most of the way to the cache. The path starts near the wood picnic table. It is about 125 steps from the picnic table to the cache.
About the puzzle:
Cuneiform is a writing system that was used to write several languages of the ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the 31st century BC down to the second century AD. The wedge-shaped impressions that make Cuneiform characters were originally created by pressing the corner of a square stick into clay tablets. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).
Cuneiform was rediscovered in modern times with the publication of the trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions at Persepolis. These were first deciphered in the early 19th century. An estimated half a million tablets are held in museums across the world. The largest collections belong to the British Museum (approximately 130,000 tablets).
I was inspired to make this cache after listening to the audiobook of A Mesopotamian Riddle by Joshua Hammer. It is about the modern decipherment of Cuneiform.
Vg vf ba evtug fvqr bs gur genvy arne n ynetr ohapu bs gerrf. Vg vf nobhg 15 fgrcf sebz gur genvy.