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The Pharos Lighthouse In Alexandria: Second Sun and Seventh Wonder of Antiquity

By Andrew Michael Chugg
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By Andrew Michael Chugg
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This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and understanding how it functioned as the archetypal lighthouse in antiquity, when it was described as a “second Sun”.

Conceived by Alexander the Great and designed by Sostratus, the Pharos lighthouse stood as an iconic landmark of Alexandria for sixteen centuries until felled by a calamitous earthquake in the fourteenth centu...

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HistoryAncient HistoryGreece - Ancient HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous Ancient Greek History