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What exactly is a lighthouse like?
Is there any record about this lighthouse in history? 1 165, when the Arab historian Ibn Sheikh visited Alexandria, he wrote a book, Alevba, which described the lighthouse in detail? 1909, German engineer Trish drew the lighthouse restoration map according to various documents? These two materials are the main basis for understanding the lighthouse today?

The tower of the lighthouse consists of three parts: upper, middle and lower? The bottom of the lower tower is square, and the tower body gradually shrinks with the rise, and the height is about 7 1 m. Both sides of the bottom are half high, and a statue of Poseidon's son playing the conch horn is placed in each corner to indicate the wind direction? The middle layer is octagonal, about 34 meters high, which is equivalent to half the height of the lower layer? The upper floor is cylindrical, about 9 meters high. Above the upper tower is a circular tower top, in which a huge torch burns day and night? A bronze statue of Poseidon, about 7 meters high, was cast on the top of the tower?

The height of the tower is114m. Together with the bronze statues on the top of the tower and above, the height is about135m. It is said that its huge body can be seen on the sea 60 kilometers away? The dazzling torch light reflected by the concave metal mirror enables the night boat to find its way to Alexandria when sailing 56 kilometers away from it?