The Lighthouse of Alexandria, also called the Lighthouse of Alexandria, is a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 280 and 247 BC and its height was then 120 meters and 137 meters, and it is one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. The island of Pharos was a small island off the coast of the western Nile delta, and in 332 BC, when Alexander the Great founded the Alexandria city in exchange for the isthmus of Pharos and this was the reason that the island was united with the coast by a mole reaching about 1260 meters, and the side became The eastern part of the mole is a large port, then it became an open bay. The Ras Al-Teen area now represents all that remains of Pharos Island and a lighthouse site at its eastern point.
The lighthouse of Alexandria was constructed in the third century B.C. after the death of Alexander the Great from fever at the age of 32. The first Ptolemy, who is Ptolemy the First Sutter, declared himself king in the year 305 BC and was commissioned to build it shortly thereafter, and its construction was completed during the reign of his son Ptolemy The second, the construction took about twelve years to complete and served as a model for all lighthouses later in the whole world. In the second century AD, satirical Lucian wrote that Sostratus, the architect whose name is included in the stucco, rivaled the name of Ptolemy, and Sostratus left an inscription in the language Greek inside the lighthouse rule says “from Sostratato S. Ben Dixifanis for the sake of the gods protecting these who are at sea. “
The lighthouse of Alexandria was at least 450 feet high and made of three sections, the square section, and held by government offices and stables, and the central part is an octagon and has a balcony where tourists can sit, enjoy the view, and the upper part is cylindrical and was lit continuously to keep the sailors safe, and at the top of the lighthouse There was a large statue of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.
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