The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a monumental structure built on the island of Pharos. Soaring over 350 feet tall, its three tiered design featured a ...

When the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt was completed in the 3rd century B.C.E., most wouldn’t have been able to glimpse the peak of the gargantuan tower, but all could see its light. The structure ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria is a 134m-tall giant lighthouse built on Pharos Island at the entrance to the port of Alexandria, Egypt, around the 3rd century BC, and is counted among the Seven Wonders ...

An exceptional archaeological mission lifts 22 massive blocks of the Alexandria Lighthouse in Egypt out of the water, to study and scan them as part of the “PHAROS” program to digitally reconstruct ...

Thirty years after its discovery, pieces of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which stood watch long ago in the harbors of ancient Egypt, are being pulled from the depths of the Mediterranean.

We have built the ancient lighthouse of Pharos out of a wooden frame that we then covered with "ancient" plaster. To achieve a "stone" finish, we then covered the plaster with an air drying clay. We ...

If you know what that means, you definitely are. If not, learn some more about lighthouses and you, too, may become one. Before there were lighthouses, mariners relied first on nature to mark darkened ...