Posted on 11/07/2025 3:22:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The seventh wonder of the ancient world lies beneath the harbor of Alexandria.
When did the Lighthouse of Alexandria Fall? | 9:00
toldinstone | 610K subscribers | 2,185 views | November 7, 2025
0:00 Introduction
1:02 Construction
1:48 Appearance
3:22 Huel
4:22 Decline and fall
5:18 Qaitbay Citadel
5:45 Submerged ruins
7:16 Latest developments
7:38 Egypt with Toldinstone
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After Rome, Alexandria was the most important center of culture and commerce in the classical world. Remains of the ancient city, however, can be hard to find in the modern metropolis.The Catacombs and Ruins of Alexandria | 10:46
Scenic Routes to the Past | 46.3K subscribers | 1,450 views | November 7, 2025
0:00 The Lighthouse of Alexandria
0:42 Kom el-Dikka
3:56 The Serapeum
5:27 Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
The only bit I know about Alexandria was that it was a major early hub of Jewish scholarship. But prolly lots of other stuff, like …. ????
I stand to be informed.
Grok has things:
“Yes, Alexandria Was a Major Christian Center Before the Muslim Conquest
Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the most prominent hubs of early Christianity for nearly six centuries, from its founding in the 1st century AD until the Arab Muslim conquest in 641 AD. It served as the seat of the Patriarchate of Alexandria—one of the five original “pentarchy” sees of the early Christian world (alongside Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, and Jerusalem)—and exerted profound theological, scholarly, and missionary influence across the Mediterranean and Africa. By the 7th century, Egypt (including Alexandria) was predominantly Christian, with the faith deeply embedded in urban and rural life, despite internal doctrinal disputes and Byzantine persecutions.”
Damned colonialist settler genocidal totalitarian foreigner ARABs should go back to ARABIA from which they launched their wars of conquest and leave ALEXANDRIA to its indigenous CHRISTIANS!!!
More:
“Yes, there was a prolonged era when Alexandria was simultaneously under Christian political rule (i.e., governed by Christian Roman/Byzantine emperors and their appointees) and remained a major center of Jewish scholarship and culture—specifically from the early 4th century AD through the early 5th century AD, with lingering influence into the 6th century.”
Had the Romans prevailed in the Battle of the Yarmuk in 636 and sent the Arabs fleeing back to Arabia, Egypt and North Africa might have remained Christian.
It was the center of Gnosticism.
That’s not a good thing, BTW.
The Septuagint version of the Torah was made by scholars at the Library of Alexandria. It is in Greek and in some ways is the oldest text material of the Bible.
[snip] The term Septuagint, meaning “seventy,” actually refers to the seventy-two translators — six from each tribe of Israel—involved in translating the Pentateuch from Hebrew to Greek... (seventy-two is rounded down to seventy, hence the Roman numeral LXX). The rest of the Hebrew Bible was translated from Hebrew to Greek by various hands over the next century or so. [/snip]
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-is-the-septuagint/
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