I am legit surprised that there is a lighthouse that old.
Valuable_Agency_1306 on
Some of you have never played Civ and it shows
darth_plank on
Was anyone else expecting to see pics of a lighthouse?
Rootspam on
That website is pure ad cancer, fuck that.
Djbearjew on
Graham Hancock haters are punching the air right now
MISTER-CLEAN on
I see they’re goin for that +1 movement and +1 sight for all naval units.
ReasonablyBadass on
I sometimes fantasize we will find a ship with sealed amphorae containing backups of the library…Â
Vernal97 on
This may sound ignorant but I completely forgot there was a Lighthouse *and* Library of Alexandria that were both destroyed.
Entire-Jellyfish4093 on
The fact that so many of yall have never heard of the Lighthouse of Alexandria is shocking to me… Literally one of the most famous structures ever built
AmericanFatPincher on
Did this just happen? Scared to click the link after reading the comments.Â
kn777 on
Into the British museum you go
Sesiebtesw on
Are they going to rebuild it?
spiralradius62 on
Really interesting
HaykoKoryun on
I hate articles written for earth.com; the titles are always the worst clickbait. They didn’t just emerge after 1,600 years, they have been lifted out.Â
Winter_Swan5104 on
I tried to use that page but fuuuuuu that. That site is not a serious site now is it? OP has to be working for that page.
Hard to wrap my head around the fact that ancient engineers built something so iconic that even its ruins still feel legendary.
Angwar on
For people surprised about the age:
As far as we know this was the first Lighthouse humans built. It was called “pharos” because it was built on the island of pharos.
Pharos then literally became the word for Lighthouse in greek language.
It got heavily damaged in earthquakes during late roman and early medieval times. Then late medieval most of its stone was repurposed to build a sea castle to protect against the turks which still stands at the harbour today.
Source: Class i took at university
tmtowtdi on
A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
efstajas on
This is so awesome.
I find it so fascinating to just think about the fact that so, so many lifetimes ago, this tower was there, and people were in awe of it from 250 BC all the way *to the middle ages*. It was in use for over 1500 years!
penguin_cheezus on
This is so sick man. I always felt this weird regret that so many cool structures of the past were lost by natural disasters or acts of men. The Library, the Colossus of Rhodes, the city of Troy?? Not just their historical value, but the knowledge and techniques both stored and used to build such structures would be so cool to know. At least these stones can help us figure out what the lighthouse used to be
bdtechted on
Hope they will eventually find Cleopatra’s supposed tomb too. If it was indeed in Alexandria.
Bobo3076 on
I do love a completely un-fucking-usable website because the ads are so invasive.
iuseblenders on
I was interested, but the amount of advertisements made me give up.
Zenopus on
Send the British to keep it safe from the backwards people.
Berlin_Blues on
All those ads make the article unreadable.
E5VL on
What irks me is whenever a website reports on something genuinely exciting they never show you any pictures, diagrams or photos of the things they are describing.
Yet whenever something tragic and unthinkable happens they are all LOOK AT THIS GROSS BLURRY BLOODIED PHOTOS OF WHAT HAPPENED.
ThePr1d3 on
Fun fact, in French the word lighthouse is “phare” because the Alexandria tower was located on the island of Faros and known as the Faros tower.
Basically in French all lighthouses are named after the one in Alexandria and not the other way around, and it’s a pleonasm when we say “le phare d’Alexandrie”
slagathorrr on
That website is cancer.
slagathorrr on
Does anyone have anything to contribute that isn’t a stupid joke?
This is actually really cool.
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Damn they had lighthouses that long ago?
I am legit surprised that there is a lighthouse that old.
Some of you have never played Civ and it shows
Was anyone else expecting to see pics of a lighthouse?
That website is pure ad cancer, fuck that.
Graham Hancock haters are punching the air right now
I see they’re goin for that +1 movement and +1 sight for all naval units.
I sometimes fantasize we will find a ship with sealed amphorae containing backups of the library…Â
This may sound ignorant but I completely forgot there was a Lighthouse *and* Library of Alexandria that were both destroyed.
The fact that so many of yall have never heard of the Lighthouse of Alexandria is shocking to me… Literally one of the most famous structures ever built
Did this just happen? Scared to click the link after reading the comments.Â
Into the British museum you go
Are they going to rebuild it?
Really interesting
I hate articles written for earth.com; the titles are always the worst clickbait. They didn’t just emerge after 1,600 years, they have been lifted out.Â
I tried to use that page but fuuuuuu that. That site is not a serious site now is it? OP has to be working for that page.
This is incredible!!!
For those that didn’t know the lighthouse was a thing, it’s one of the [seven wonders of the ancient world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World). Pretty cool
Hard to wrap my head around the fact that ancient engineers built something so iconic that even its ruins still feel legendary.
For people surprised about the age:
As far as we know this was the first Lighthouse humans built. It was called “pharos” because it was built on the island of pharos.
Pharos then literally became the word for Lighthouse in greek language.
It got heavily damaged in earthquakes during late roman and early medieval times. Then late medieval most of its stone was repurposed to build a sea castle to protect against the turks which still stands at the harbour today.
Source: Class i took at university
A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
This is so awesome.
I find it so fascinating to just think about the fact that so, so many lifetimes ago, this tower was there, and people were in awe of it from 250 BC all the way *to the middle ages*. It was in use for over 1500 years!
This is so sick man. I always felt this weird regret that so many cool structures of the past were lost by natural disasters or acts of men. The Library, the Colossus of Rhodes, the city of Troy?? Not just their historical value, but the knowledge and techniques both stored and used to build such structures would be so cool to know. At least these stones can help us figure out what the lighthouse used to be
Hope they will eventually find Cleopatra’s supposed tomb too. If it was indeed in Alexandria.
I do love a completely un-fucking-usable website because the ads are so invasive.
I was interested, but the amount of advertisements made me give up.
Send the British to keep it safe from the backwards people.
All those ads make the article unreadable.
What irks me is whenever a website reports on something genuinely exciting they never show you any pictures, diagrams or photos of the things they are describing.
Yet whenever something tragic and unthinkable happens they are all LOOK AT THIS GROSS BLURRY BLOODIED PHOTOS OF WHAT HAPPENED.
Fun fact, in French the word lighthouse is “phare” because the Alexandria tower was located on the island of Faros and known as the Faros tower.
Basically in French all lighthouses are named after the one in Alexandria and not the other way around, and it’s a pleonasm when we say “le phare d’Alexandrie”
That website is cancer.
Does anyone have anything to contribute that isn’t a stupid joke?
This is actually really cool.