What survives of Ptolemy’s famed pharos now lies at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1968, a UNESCO expedition identified the ruins of the lighthouse in the ancient port of Alexandria.

Standing tall on the island of Pharos in ancient Egypt, the Lighthouse of Alexandria once soared over 350 feet, guiding sailors and symbolizing the might of Alexandria. Built in the 3rd century ...

Pharos, the ancient lighthouse of the port city of Alexandria, was one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. Built on an island in the harbor of Alexandria, the Greeks created a causeway the lead ...

Of all the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only the Great Pyramid at Giza still stands. Of the other six, the best documented is the huge Pharos lighthouse that stood watch over Alexandria.

travelers up to 50 miles out to sea could spot the fifth—and the only practical—ancient Wonder: the Pharos, or lighthouse, of Alexandria, whose orange flame guided ship pilots along the Nile ...

Islam Issa’s Alexandria: The City that Changed ... copious marble and giant parks, where the Pharos Lighthouse, an ancient wonder of the world, served as an ancient Statue of Liberty.

The architect and his workers built a magnificent lighthouse on Pharos Island ... as the Pharos of Alexandria, one of the most incredible engineering wonders of the ancient world.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, the earliest one recorded, was one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the ... hence it was called the Pharos of Alexandria, after the small islet on which it was located.

Its rulers built a massive lighthouse at Pharos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the famed Library of Alexandria. It was at the library that Archimedes invented the screw-shaped ...

Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian settlement, the port city represented Egypt's absorption into Greco ...