“We supposed old Alexandria was destroyed ... culminating in a huge statue, probably of Poseidon or Zeus. Scholars say the Pharos, completed about 283 B.C., dwarfed all other human structures ...

the Pharos of Alexandria, the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. Why should a ...

NOVA: You believe that you have found the Pharos lighthouse ... every traveler entering the harbor of Alexandria was obliged to pass in front of the statue of the kings and queens—the kings ...

This high-paying yet daunting role is that of a lighthouse keeper at the Pharos of Alexandria, a legendary structure near Alexandria’s port in Egypt. Though it offers unmatched wealth ...