Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)

Assembled from 33 blocks · 2 evidence · 27 related

1. Story
2. The tower on the eastern tip of the Pharos peninsula that guided shipping into Alexandria's Eastern Harbour and gave its name to lighthouses in several European languages. It was damaged repeatedly by earthquakes; the tremor and tsunami of 1303 is generally taken as the point at which its light went out, and a further shock in 1323 destroyed most of what remained. Sultan Qaitbay built a fort on the site between 1477 and 1479, reusing stone from the ruin. From 1994 a French team under Jean-Yves Empereur mapped the submerged blocks off the fort, recording some 3,500 architectural items including columns, sphinxes, obelisks and colossal statuary.
3. Knowledge
4. Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
5. Colossus of Rhodes
6. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
7. Connections
8. Colossus of Rhodes
9. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
10. The earthquake and tsunami of 1303 extinguish the Pharos
11. Underwater survey of the Pharos site begins off Qaitbay
12. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
13. Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
14. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
15. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
16. An earthquake breaks the Colossus of Rhodes at the knee
17. The bronze of the Colossus is sold for scrap
18. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
19. Hanging Gardens (of Babylon, or of Nineveh)
20. Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
21. Colossus of Rhodes
22. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
23. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
24. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
25. Philo of Byzantium (the Paradoxographer)
26. Antipater of Sidon
27. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
28. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
29. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
30. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
31. Evidence
32. The fullest ancient description of the wonders as a set, written centuries after most had been ruined, and by a later Paradoxographer rather than the 3rd-century BCE engineer Philo Mechanicus.
33. That the Pharos site off the Citadel of Qaitbay has yielded some 3,500 recorded architectural items, providing physical evidence for a wonder previously known only from texts.