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The Lighthouse of Alexandria guided ships for 1,600 years
Built around 280 BC on Pharos island, it rose over 100 metres and used a mirror to project firelight far out to sea. Its name became the word for lighthouse in several languages.
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Divers found the lighthouse on the seabed
Earthquakes toppled the Pharos by 1323. In the 1990s archaeologists located huge blocks and statues from it underwater in Alexandria's harbour, where dives still recover fragments.
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A mirror on the Pharos could be seen 50 km away
Accounts say a polished bronze mirror at the lighthouse's summit reflected sunlight by day and firelight by night, visible far out to sea by approaching ships.