The lighthouse of Alexandria

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The lighthouse of Alexandria

Introduction:

Around the world there were a lot of amazing things, but the most amazing were the seven wonders. One of the magnificent seven wonders was the lighthouse of Alexandria. The lighthouse was the only one in her time and unique forever. This wonderful lighthouse stood for centuries sending lights reflected from the curiosities mirror.  The Lighthouse was built around 280 BC, 117m in height and stood for 1,500 years (Lighthouse of Alexandria. (n.d.)). The lighthouse was built after the death of the Great Alexander, and the first (Ptolemy l soter) announced himself the king in 305 BC. The building finished in the region of his son the second Ptolemy (Ptolemy II Philadelphus) (Lighthouse of Alexandria - Wikipedia 2013). This lighthouse was the first lighthouse in the history (Lighthouse of Alexandria. (n.d.)). The lighthouse was built to guide the sailor, into the port (Lighthouse of Alexandria - Wikipedia 2013). This lighthouse impressed the scientist and also it was used to detect the ships and attack them before they reached the coast (Lighthouse of Alexandria. (n.d.)).

How it was build and by whom?

According to Plutarch, Alexander had a dream, which he was told to look for the small island of Pharos, this island stand on the coast of ancient Egypt (Contributors, H. (n.d.)). He choose Ptolemy I soter on the generals, to protect this island. Ptolemy made his mind, Pharos needed a distinctive to recognize it, both verbatim and nominal, the coast was hard to be finding (Contributors, H. (n.d.)). This lighthouse was built by the ancient Egyptians. It was built and designed by Sostratus of Knidos (The Lighthouse of Alexandria. (n.d.)). This island was built in the ancient Egyptian in a small island of Pharos just off the coast Nile Delta’s western edge.  

History:

This historical building took a lot of time to be built. After 12 years, the great lighthouse had been build even after the death of Alexandria by a fever at the age 32 years old. As the history was far even the money wasn’t the same (Lighthouse of Alexandria - Wikipedia 2013). This lighthouse cost 800 talents and bars of silver; this will be counted in our time as 3 million Dollars (Contributors, H. (n.d.)). They wondered what kind of materials they use. Egyptians used stone blocks of white marble mortar attached to each other with lead mortar. The first floor was a 6 meter high stone platform; it was almost was 73 meters in height and 30 meters square at the base, and was shaped like a massive box. The front door in the ground floor was part way up to 183 meters long ramp supported by huge arches.  Into this part of the structure was a large helical ramp, which allowed materials to be dragged to the top in animal-drawn carts. At the head of the first section tower was eight- sided, which was about 35 meters in length. On the upper part of the tower was the cylinder which was Connects up to 18 meters into an open dome where the fire that provided light burned. On the surface of the dome was a large statue, as they say maybe this is the god of the sea, Poseidon (The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Pharos Lighthouse. (n.d.)). The main architect for the project was a man called Sostratus. Full calculations were finished at the famous Library of Alexandria (The Lighthouse of Alexandria. (n.d.)).

Evaluation:

This lighthouse has a lot of earthquakes one of them in 965 AD and the other one was in 1323 AD. However, nothing can be stand forever because of the series earthquakes the lighthouse Alexandria was destroyed in 1480AD. Even with the destroying of the lighthouse, a team of divers search the Mediterranean Sea and they found some of the remains from the lighthouse (Contributors, H. (n.d.)). Even with the found that those divers found people still think that this is maybe not true because some of the findings were from an earlier are and from an older building. They think that some of the stones from the lighthouse were used to build a fortress on the island that still Existed in the current time (The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Pharos Lighthouse. (n.d.)).

Conclusion:

In the end of this report, even with the earthquakes that attack the lighthouse of Alexandria, after 1500 years it was the last one who stood from a six wonders. This lighthouse represents the first lighthouse in the world not only as a lighthouse, but as magnificent building in the past in the present.

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