Lighthouse of Alexandria

The upper platform at night burning a tin fed with wood and resin. Legend has it that Stratton want for a long time for the foundation, a material that resists salt water, and fin all in all toldy construct the tower of giant burys of glass. In 1373 an earthquake pulverizeed the remains of the tower. Its ruins rescue been searched in vain. (Dunn). Illustrious memory of that salient term was for many another(prenominal) centuries, the famous lightho apply of Alexandria. sailplaning near the coast, on foggy old age and at night, made necessary the lieu of braggy permanent fixtures In indisputable ports and cables on the Mediterranean coast.At the time the get over Is for Just one of the around definitive works of the ancients, considered In those days as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. I nasty the colossal lighthouse of Alexandria. It seems that this name should be the beacon of the small island where they mountingd at the entrance of the harbor, and later served to name the sites and devices that have since been constructed for the same purpose. Plink and other ancient authors define the magnificent building which was built nor-west of the island of Pharaohs, during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphia, n the years 285 to 247 SC.Its builder was Stratton of Census, watchword of Dim&1043crates, who, in turn, had been an graphic designer of Alexander. (Ministry of culture). On a large block of glass is not attacked by the sea , there stood a white stain tower, divided into smaller and smaller bodies to match the 160 meters Dries speaks of 55 to 65 meters others raise It to 183. (Ashman). At the top was a large brazier, 11th day and night, with a benign of lens-shaped mirror, which was put before the call to shoot down light rays to greater distance.In the basement of the great work you read the Inscription Stratton of Census, son of Dim&1043crates, the saviors, for those who sail the sea. The Arabs continued to use the famous light house after moderate Egypt in the ninth century of our era. An emperor butterfly of Constantinople, to hinder the navigation of those, decided to destroy it, but, lacking the strength to oppose against the caliph, possessor of the country, went to the craft. He sent an emissary to the almighty AY-Wald, with the slogan of thinking it was a great treasure at the base of the genuinely high tower.The caliph ordered its demolition, until, warned, perhaps, misleading, pestiferous work was suspended when she had done for the about part. An earthquake happened in 1375 consummated the terminal of the wonderful work due to Stratton of Unkind. (A. CalmNZ-Land). As If sensing that something was coming to an end, Alexandria kept the worlds largest library, a library that tried to preserve that was his ambition, all human knowledge. succeeding(a) to It and above It stood the lighthouse. Next to the lighthouse were the markets and docks and warehouses.Alongside them, the tomb AT Alexander , rater decade palaces AT Kilns Ana queens slang, ten worlds TLS synagogues, temples of the abstruse sects, the accounting of the merchants, brothels and shops, perfect palaces bleached the richest citizens and consequently rows of large churches, each with rowdy monks and finger cymbals of martyrs, and one of them with the relics of the San Marcos. And all this time, the big city, destroy ran as fast as a machine its daily course, and his career was a good deal harder and much farther reaching Han many older cities.In his day, and if the day was very long, Alexandria was the most exciting place on earth. (Clement) Of all the cities that Alexander founded Alexandria in Egypt was the greatest of all (Whiten). As Caesar himself wrote (and Caesar fought and nearly died in Alexandria), Egypt was the doorway of the lighthouse beacon that soars and was the symbol of craft and energy of the city, and also the symbol of the ictus order Alexandra urban planted end-to-end the ancient East. Noon and Elizabeth Roomer)