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© Stéphane Compoint
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Overall view of the Eastern Port and of downtown Alexandria. In the foreground, fort Qaitbay, built on the ancient lighthouse’s site by Sultan mamelouk Ahray Qaitbay at the end of the fifteenth century (1477). On the left of the fort, the underwater digging site where the blocs of the ancient lighthouse were discovered.
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