Hello All
Have a deathwish or some serious need of cash?
How about getting you hands on a cool 5 million?
Interested?
The following treasure legend. Is classic treasure story from the days of the British empire.
The following story has been almost lost to history.
It was only to be re-discovered by accident when through old newspapers dating back to 1902. Where some newspapers of the time mentions the following events. lt appeared in various newspapers around the world. Then quickly forgotten. Perhaps hushed up by an embarrassed British government.
After the massacre of General Gordons forces at Kartoum in 1885. The British government reluctantly took another expedition to retake the Sudan in 1898. General Horaitio Kitchener known as Lord Kichener. In one of his battles to retake the Sudan be was forced dump ammunition boxes of many thousands of rounds over the side into the River Nile.
Some of his men was a little too eager in dumping the amunition before Kichener discovered a terrible blunder that 2 amunition boxes did not carry ammuniion but gold soveriegns. I cannot imagine how much trouble those poor privates got them selves into?
I bet they were cleaning latrines for the rest of thier military careers.
The ammuinition boxes contained 20000 gold English soverigns worth today about 5 million dollars and perhaps even more if they could be sold in conection with Lord Kicheners recapture of the Sudan?
Today the very Gunboat that tossed the treasure overboard into the Nile still exists in the Blue Nile Yacht club on the Nile. Looking very neglected like a ghost of itself.
The location where the ammmunition and soverigns was dropped near a bend in the river near a place called Shendy. It might be with the right equipment be possible to recover the items deep in the mud of the Nile? Would the boxes be still preserved in the mud in the bed of the river?
It would be an amazing place to film a documentary and explore with a small team under an agreement with Sudanese government with the right contacts?
It may be an interesting adventure for those willing to dream a little.
But the mighty Nile river of ancient empires do not give up here secrets so easily.
Hardluck
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