The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Ancients
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The Collapse of the Pharas in Islamic Times
When the Pharas collapsed, it collapsed into the harbour. The remains of it still exist to stay in fact. But we can exactly or more almost exactly date the collapse of the Pharas from another visitor - Ipin Batuta. He traveled an extraordinary distance as far as India and China. And when he comes back 20 years later, it's collapsed. Do we know why it collapsed? Well, that's an interesting story. Although the overall geological history of this region is uplift over the last million years of about 120 meters. Since Tollamac times, the ground has gone down about seven meters. So once the land goes down, or the sea level goes up, it's exactly
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