Thursday, January 31, 2013
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
One of my pieces for the Array art book, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world: the Lighthouse of Alexandria. It was destroyed by earthquakes over a thousand years ago, but before it was destroyed it was the tallest man-made structure on earth. Back in the day it was called Pharos (not the lighthouse of Alexandria), which is probably why in French the word lighthouse is pronounced "pharos". Alexander the Great was kind of a maudite vache, pardon my french, but he did build some pretty cool stuff.
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The Lighthouse of Alexandria is the most well recorded destroyed six of the seven wonders of the ancient world (the pyramids of Giza is the only wonder still standing), as it was still in force until a severe earthquake land destroyed structure in a few decades in the early 14th century.
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