Overview

• The PHAROS project team raised 22 sandstone and granite blocks weighing 70 to 80 tons each from the seabed off Alexandria.
• Recovered elements include massive foundation slabs, threshold stones of a monumental gate and newly identified Egyptian-style pylon fragments.
• Specialists have digitally mapped and scanned more than 100 additional underwater remnants to complete the archaeological record.
• Experts from CNRS, Dassault Systèmes La Fondation and Centre d’Études Alexandrines are measuring and positioning each block in a virtual framework.
• Researchers aim to reconstruct the lighthouse’s original three-tiered design and illuminate its pioneering 300 BC maritime engineering.