Lukol Directory: Arts: Architecture: Building Types: Lighthouses: Pharos of Alexandria

The Great Pharos Lighthouse
Account of the findings of an expedition to discover the lighthouse, along with its history and conjectures on its interior design, by Lee Krystek in his Museum of Unnatural Mystery.
http://www.unmuseum.org/pharos.htm

The Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria
Image and description from CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/970...

The Pharos of Alexandria
Illustrated history by Colin Clement of the ancient Egyptian lighthouse built c.290 BC and destroyed in the 14th century. Part of the Hellenic Alexandria site.
http://www.greece.org/alexandria/pharos/

Pharos Sculpture Recovered
Reprint of news brief from the Archaeological Institute of America, along with an illustration from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
http://he.net/~archaeol/9601/newsbriefs/ph...

Pharos Lighthouse
Provides technical data and chronology.
http://www.structurae.de/en/structures/dat...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria
Alaa Ashmawy provides a history and description of the Egyptian lighthouse begun c.290 BC on his site 'The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World'. Artist's impression by Mario Larrinaga.
http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/pharo...

Underwater Archaeological Investigation of the Pharos
A Franco-Egyptian team inspected the submerged ruins of the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria in 1994-1998. An illustrated, scholarly report hosted by UNESCO.
http://www.unesco.org/csi/pub/source/alex6...


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