A project is underway to reconstruct the lighthouse as a 3-D computer model ...

An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious archaeological project aims to reassemble it in 3-D.

Off the coast of Alexandria, divers and cranes have returned to a site that has rested underwater for centuries. Large stone ...

After centuries beneath the waves, 22 massive stone blocks from the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria have been recovered from ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria is a 134m-tall giant lighthouse built on Pharos Island at the entrance to the port of Alexandria, Egypt, around the 3rd century BC, and is counted among the Seven Wonders ...

When the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt was completed in the 3rd century B.C.E., most wouldn’t have been able to glimpse the peak of the gargantuan tower, but all could see its light. The structure ...

An exceptional archaeological mission lifts 22 massive blocks of the Alexandria Lighthouse in Egypt out of the water, to study and scan them as part of the “PHAROS” program to digitally reconstruct ...

14:39, Sun, Jul 13, 2025 Updated: 14:43, Sun, Jul 13, 2025 Archaeologists have recovered an astonishing 22 stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ...

We have built the ancient lighthouse of Pharos out of a wooden frame that we then covered with "ancient" plaster. To achieve a "stone" finish, we then covered the plaster with an air drying clay. We ...