Stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria recovered from seafloor (archaeologymag.com)

We changed the URL from https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/01/lighthouse-alexandria-g... to an article that it appears to have been cribbed from, although it's not entirely clear.

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[original URL was https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/01/lighthouse-alexandria-g... - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44598029]

It was the tallest building in the world? And it survived till the 1300s?? Wild.

Seems like there's a gulf between the artist's computer rendering and the mosaic.

Was the point of light houses to attract trade?

One place I would love to visit is the Tower of Hercules which was built in the first century and based on the original plans of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hercules

This being to mind the open source game 0AD (https://play0ad.com).

I could be misremembering but I’m pretty sure the lighthouse is one of the wonders you can build in the game.

  Check it out if you’ve never given it a go. Built by a tonne of volunteers who aim for historically accurate soldiers and buildings in this Age of Empires like RTS game.