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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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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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