Save the island of Pharos
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Arshad Lighthouse (lighthouse) sailors at a distance of 60 km for sixteen centuries and has not stopped since then robbed the imagination of people, It is a symbol of Alexander City, bushy on the sand of Egypt and was one of the Seven Wonders. Lighthouse was built in 283 BC during the reign of King Ptolemy Philadelphus. And consisted of three-storey tower to a height of 135 meters, and hue in the quakes in the twelfth and fourteenth after birth. Try to travelers and historians search for the remains lighthouse in the Bay of Alexandria on the island of Pharos, which gave the exact name of the lighthouse, but to no avail that the French archaeologists in 1994 examined the Deep Sea, Alexandria and dug effects may have been a part of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
Cubes of concrete as a barrier of water
Began operations in 1993 and has been the dumping of concrete cubes of water as a barrier in front of the Mamluk Bey Citadel, which built in 1477 on the eastern edge of the island of Pharos, to protect the castle from the power of the Mediterranean devastating. Has alerted the filmmaker, the names of Bakrie, the authorities concerned to the risk of the operation, which directly threaten the archaeological ruins under the sea, which proved its presence near the castle since the sixties.
Photos: Istvan Kombwan
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Bey Citadel
In 1994, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said the task of drilling, under the sea and east of Bey Citadel, Center for Alexandrian Studies, which was founded in 1989 the French National Center for Scientific Research Directorate of Antiquities, Mr. Jean-Yves Emperor Jean-Yves Empereur. Then he started to Egyptian and French divers, technicians and specialists, archaeologists and Egyptologist first campaign in the excavations.
A huge statue of Ptolemy II
Pledged to finance the first effects of the French Institute of Oriental IFAO of the national ministries of education and technical research and foreign affairs, and Gideon GEDEON a private company for the production of audio-visual institutions and thousands and electricity ELF; EDF.
Excavation: Jean-Yves Emperor, CEAPhotos: Istvan Kombwan Stéphane Compoint© Corbis Sygma
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