http://blog.hazaad.com/2006/02/02/mausoleum-of-maussollos-at-halicarnassus/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:00:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://blog.hazaad.com/2006/02/02/mausoleum-of-maussollos-at-halicarnassus/#comment-158 Hazaad.com’s Blog » Blog Archive » Lighthouse of Alexandria Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:31:59 +0000 http://blog.hazaad.com/?p=84#comment-158 [...] The Lighthouse at Alexandria no longer exists in its vertical glory. However, we do believe that it once existed, and at that time it may have been 440 feet tall. Despite all the hypotheticals in the previous sentence, if this estimate is correct this building would easily have been one of the largest man made structures on earth at the time. It was built in the third century BC and lasted an amazingly long time. It is thought to have been largely destroyed in the 14th century by two earthquakes in 1303 and 1323. As with the mausoleum of Maussollos some of the stone from the ruin was used in the making of a fortification in the area. In the case of the lighthouse some of the stone was used in a fort built by the sultan of Egypt, Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa’it Bay (who’s story is also quite amazingly), in the same place that the lighthouse stood. [...] […] The Lighthouse at Alexandria no longer exists in its vertical glory. However, we do believe that it once existed, and at that time it may have been 440 feet tall. Despite all the hypotheticals in the previous sentence, if this estimate is correct this building would easily have been one of the largest man made structures on earth at the time. It was built in the third century BC and lasted an amazingly long time. It is thought to have been largely destroyed in the 14th century by two earthquakes in 1303 and 1323. As with the mausoleum of Maussollos some of the stone from the ruin was used in the making of a fortification in the area. In the case of the lighthouse some of the stone was used in a fort built by the sultan of Egypt, Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa’it Bay (who’s story is also quite amazingly), in the same place that the lighthouse stood. […]

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