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- Includes historical accounts that explain the lighthouse.
- Points out the debates over how the lighthouse was built and controlled and how it was destroyed.
"With the harbor of Alexandria stands the tower called Pharos, the first think about. It is kept together by goblet and lead and is 600 yards high." (Epiphanius the Monk) "The Pharos today is composed of four phases. The first, of your rectangular design, is remarkably built in rectangular cut stones, which the joint parts are so well hidden that the whole appears to be formed of an individual block of stone, left over insensible to the ravages of their time." (Al Bakri, a middle ages traveler and copy writer) Over 2,000 years back, two ancient writers named Antipater of Sidon and Philo of Byzantium authored antiquity's most well-known tour guides. After the two Greeks got traveled round the Mediterranean, they had written of what they considered to be the classical world's greatest structure projects. While there is still some question concerning who actually authored the written text attributed to Philo and when it was authored, their lists ended up comprising the Seven Magic of the Ancient World, igniting interest in the methods they select and inspiring subsequent generations to identify their own era's Seven Magic. The youngest of the magic also ended up being the most sensible and one of the longest resided, surviving into the late DARK AGES. It had been a lighthouse built on the north seacoast of Egypt, in Africa, at the Greek city founded in Alexander's name. It had been the Pharos, the fantastic Lighthouse of Alexandria. Among antiquity's magic, the Lighthouse of Alexandria was rather unique in conditions of both its goal and its secular aspect. While pyramids and statues dished up religious purposes in Egypt and Greece, and more were impressive artwork, the roots of the lighthouse weren't even while a lighthouse in any way.
