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Discovery: Oldest Lighthouse At Ancient Port
New Anatolian ^ | 2-6-2008

Posted on 02/06/2008 6:20:24 PM PST by blam

DISCOVERY: Oldest lighthouse at ancient Roman port

The New Anatolian / Ankara

06 February 2008

Turkish archaeologists unearthed a 2000-year-old lighthouse at the ancient Roman port of Patara, near southern town of Kas, Antalya, discovering probably the oldest such structure that managed to remain intact.

The 12-meter-high lighthouse was built under the reign of Emperor Nero who ruled from 54 to 68, Professor Havva Iskan Isik, head of the excavation team reported.

"The oldest known lighthouse is the one in Alexandria but there is nothing left of it. So, the lighthouse at the Patara port is the oldest one that has remained intact," she said.

Isik said there might be a second lighthouse at the other edge of the port under a huge debris of soil, which she said was to be excavated at a later time.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: anatolia; antalya; archeology; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; kas; lighthouse; nero; patara; port; roman; romanempire; turkey

1 posted on 02/06/2008 6:20:27 PM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 02/06/2008 6:20:55 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

“The oldest known lighthouse is the one in Alexandria but there is nothing left of it. So, the lighthouse at the Patara port is the oldest one that has remained intact,” she said.”

So, no one noticed the intact light house down the way


3 posted on 02/06/2008 6:25:03 PM PST by edcoil
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To: edcoil
A Coruna has a lighthouse rebuilt sometime in the second century. I believe this is on the site of a lighthouse first built in the area about 700 BC, or maybe even earlier by Phoenicians.

That's in Spain.

4 posted on 02/06/2008 6:37:35 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

I saw scuba divers finding big stone blocks in the Alexandria harbor...that were alleged to be parts of the Alexandria lighthouse after the several earthquakes.

Is this wrong ?

“The oldest known lighthouse is the one in Alexandria but there is nothing left of it. “


5 posted on 02/06/2008 6:44:40 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: blam
Turkish archaeologists unearthed a 2000-year-old lighthouse at the ancient Roman port of Patara

The lighthouse was immediayely destroyed as being unislamic./s

6 posted on 02/06/2008 7:39:17 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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Here ya go, Patara's ancient lighthouse, under reconstruction.
7 posted on 02/06/2008 7:44:24 PM PST by hedgetrimmer (I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: muawiyah; edcoil

La Coruna Lighthouse (Tower Of Hercules)

8 posted on 02/06/2008 8:19:12 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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9 posted on 02/06/2008 10:00:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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To: blam

Somewhere or other I’ve seen a photo (or perhaps a drawing?) of a miniature version of the ancient Pharos of Alexandria; it was constructed in ancient times and may have been one of a number such standing on a series of sites west of the city.


10 posted on 02/06/2008 10:07:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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I thought they said it has remained intact.

I imagined that to mean that it was still in its original configuration, standing by the harbor—Or do they mean they found all the stones.


11 posted on 02/07/2008 2:47:26 PM PST by wildbill
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I saw the documentary again which showed the replica of the Pharos; it was a tomb believed to have been built in imitation of the Pharos’ design. “Engineering an Empire”, hosted by Peter Weller.


12 posted on 02/23/2008 11:37:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/___________________Profile updated Tuesday, February 19, 2008)
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more about the Tower of Hercules at La Coruna:

http://sobreespana.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/torre-de-hercules.jpg

http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/towerofhercules.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LosO-B6mD2A

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1312

Ancient miniature replica of the Pharos at Alexandria:

https://www.google.com/images?q=Abusir+Tower

http://archaeology.about.com/od/tterms/qt/Tower-Of-Abusir.htm?rd=1


13 posted on 08/21/2013 6:32:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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14 posted on 09/12/2021 5:13:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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