For decades, researchers have been scanning the Mediterranean seabed, slowly piecing together fragments of an ancient structure swallowed by the water long ago.Back in the 1990s alone, more than 3,000 submerged artifacts were documented — but none as striking as what archaeologists have just uncovered.
Why the lighthouse of Alexandria still fascinates the world
The Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria — these were the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Only the Great Pyramid still stands
Fires, earthquakes, and time erased the rest. Among them, the Lighthouse of Alexandria — once a towering beacon of more than 100 meters (over 330 feet) — guided sailors along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. Built in the 3rd century BCE under Ptolemy II, it survived for more than a millennium until a series of powerful earthquakes between the 13th and 14th centuries brought it down.
