It wasn't finished until Ptolemy II began his reign. He ruled from 284 to 246 B.C.E. The lighthouse was built in three stages. The lowest section of the lighthouse was square.

Ptolemy II was also the wealthiest king of the world. Another Greek writer, Athenaios, who lived in the second century, quotes a book on Alexandria written by Kallixeimos of Rhodes.

What survives of Ptolemy’s famed pharos now lies at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1968, a UNESCO expedition identified the ruins of the lighthouse in the ancient port of Alexandria.

Built by Sostratus of Cnidus and finished during the reign of his son Ptolemy II of Egypt in about 280 B.C., the lighthouse is estimated to have stood 350 feet tall, surpassed only by the pyramids ...

As the eldest, the succession initially fell to Ptolemy Ceraunus. But things turned out differently because his mother’s repudiation led his father to remarry in 317 B.C., and his new wife, Berenice, ...

A statement from the Egyptian government explains that pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309–246 B.C.) established Philadelphia as an agricultural village meant to secure further food resources ...

After his stay in Memphis, Ptolemy II, son of Ptolemy I, had the tomb of Alexander the Great moved to Alexandria, the city founded by the emperor in reference to his own name, ...

In 1952, the German-French artist Jean Arp made several trips to Greece, where he encountered the ideas of Claudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Roman astronomer, mathematician and geographer best known for ...