It was these learned men who had produced the lighthouse. Eventually, our Seven Wonders tourist would likely have torn himself away from Alexandria’s pleasures to sail up the Nile and gaze upon ...

Pharos, the ancient lighthouse of the port city of Alexandria, was one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. Built on an island in the harbor of Alexandria, the Greeks created a causeway the lead ...

Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation, photo: Christoph Gerigk One of the Seven Wonders of the World, Alexandria's 40-story lighthouse, the Pharos, dated from c. 283 B.C. It fell into ruin in the 1300s.

and The Lighthouse of Alexandria. However, in 2000, a campaign was started to decide on the new seven world wonders. In 2017, the new list of the seven wonders of the world was finalised ...

Cool! The largest Egyptian pyramid ever was built in 2600 BC and is the only one of the seven ancient wonders that’s not in ruins. You can still visit it today in its full glory! It was the ...

As heat-trapping air pollution warms up the Earth to a dangerous level, one of the major changes underway is a rise in sea ...

The Seven New Wonders of the World created some controversy when they were announced, but they—and the last remaining ...

George Murdock, a lighthouse keeper in Kingston, failed to return to his wife and children one night after rowing to the mainland for groceries. The next morning, his body was found floating in the ...

The library of the city was an encyclopedia built of stone, the lighthouse belonged to the illustrious circle of the seven wonders of the world. In the nineteenth century, Alexandria – after ...

It is from their writings, that a list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ... the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Of these, only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains standing.