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The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The lighthouse allowed ships to approach the harbor without much trouble, and the observation point on top of the unique construction made it possible to monitor the waters and notice the enemy in time.
The height of the ancient lighthouse was 140 meters.The Alexandria Lighthouse was built on the east coast of the small island of Faros near Alexandria, the main seaport of Egypt, built by Alexander the Great in 332 BC.It is also known in history as the Faros Lighthouse. Such a large-scale construction required enormous resources. Not only financial and labor, but also intellectual. Ptolemy I solved this problem rather quickly. Just at that time he conquered Syria, enslaved the Jews and took them to Egypt. He subsequently employed some of them to build a lighthouse (in 299 B.C.).
Thus, a truce, a huge amount of manpower, and other favorable circumstances, enabled him to begin construction of the grandiose wonder of the world. Although the exact date of the beginning of th
