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Close ✕Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
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.
31.2, 29.9 · approximate · c. 280–247 BCE – c. 1303/1323 CE
On the world
- A place in: Wonders of the Ancient and Modern World · 12 places
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Connections
- contemporary with Colossus of Rhodes — Both were built in the early third century BCE in the Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean, the Colossus completed in 280 BCE.
- added later to The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — The Lighthouse is absent from Antipater's seven, which name the walls of Babylon instead, and enters the canon in later versions.
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