Pharos of Alexandria

Amazing Ancient Structures: Pharos of Alexandria The Pharos of Alexandria is the seventh wonder of the world. My dad is very amazed by the Seven Wonders of the World and had asked me about them a while back. Since I didn’t know about them, he checked out a book that I had also looked through. These seven structures then caught my interest and I took this opportunity to research one of them. I chose …showed first 75 words of 1086 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1086 total…model for many prototypes along the Mediterranean, as far away as Spain. From a linguistic standpoint, it gave its name, Pharos, to all the lighthouses in the world. The lighthouse was built on the island of Pharos and soon the building itself acquired the name. The connection of the name with the function became so strong that the word "Pharos" became the root of the word "lighthouse" in the French, Italian, Spanish and Romanian languages.