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 ...

Aerial photo showing a fifteenth-century citadel on the island of Pharos, where the Lighthouse of Alexandria once stood, and a digital image of the underwater remnants of the monument Coin showing the ...

Workers at the Egyptian port city of Alexandria have recovered 22 massive stone blocks that were used thousands of years ago to build the city's famous lighthouse, one of the wonders of the ancient ...

You may have read about the seven ancient wonders of the world, some of the planet’s most magnificent and powerful creations, chosen and compiled into a list by Hellenic travellers passing through ...

On a cold November day, icy winds stream down the Potomac River, washing across the widening riverscape and blasting the Jones Point Lighthouse.

For over 2,300 years, researchers and historians are trying to locate the Alexander the Great Tomb, one of the world's ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple announced the next 1,000 grants for fortified roofs in the state will open on Wednesday during a press conference.

Celeste Edenloff is the special projects editor and senior reporter for the Alexandria Echo Press. She has lived in the ...

Louisiana may soon require insurance companies to deliver bigger discounts to homeowners who put fortified roofs on their homes, as residents flock to get the new roofs and state officials grapple ...

UP JUST OVER 100 POINTS. A MAJOR MILESTONE FOR LOUISIANA’S FORTIFIED ROOF PROGRAM. LOUISIANA INSURANCE COMMISSIONER TIM TEMPLE SAYS THE PROGRAM HAS REACHED 10,000 ROOFS, ABOUT 4000 OF THOSE WERE MADE ...

How archaeologists are rediscovering the ancient world's most marvelous monuments The canonical Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were renowned for their size or splendor and—in all cases—the ...