The lighthouse of Alexandria the moment it was discovered 9 years ago

The Lighthouse of Alexandria or the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Pharos of Alexandria, is one of the Seven Wonders mentioned by the Greeks, and it was located on the edge of the Pharos Peninsula and is the current place of Qaitbay Castle in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, and is considered the first lighthouse in the world. It was built by Sostratus during the reign of Ptolemy the Second in 270 BC, and it reached a height of 120 meters and was destroyed in the earthquake in 1323, and recently one of the divers published on his personal page on the social networking site "Twitter" a number of pictures of the temple at the moment of its discovery underwater.

The lighthouse was established in the year 280 BC, in the era of Ptolemy the Second, and was built by the Greek architect "Sostratus", and its length was 120 meters, and some believe that the stones used in the construction of Qaitbay Castle in Alexandria are one of the destroyed lighthouse stones, and that the castle site itself is a site The collapsed lighthouse.

In 944 CE, the Al-Masoudi historian described Al-Fanar as an honest description, and its height was estimated at 230 cubits. The 1303 AD earthquake occurred during the reign of Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad bin Qalawun, and he struck the eastern Mediterranean, destroying the fortifications, walls and lighthouse of Alexandria.

While Al-Maqrizi described, in his plans, the destruction of the city, and stated that Prince Rukn al-Din Biber al-Junashkir had built the lighthouse, meaning its restoration, in the year 703 AH, after the devastating earthquake half a century ago, Ibn Battuta visited Alexandria on his second trip. In 1350 A.D., he wrote: “And when I returned to the country of Morocco, I went to the lighthouse and found it ruined by ruin, so that it could neither enter nor go up to it, and the“ victorious king ”began to build a lighthouse with it, and death impeded his completion. .

The Egyptian historian Ibn Iyas also narrated that when Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay visited Alexandria in the year 1477 AD, he ordered that the place of the lighthouse be built by a new tower, which was later known as Qaitbay Tower, and then Tabiah Qitbay, which is still standing today.