184 - July 03 2015 - The lighthouse of Alexandria (915)

            If you are interested in history then just visit the exhibition in my hometown!
Egypt: Last Pharaohs. From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra

The exhibition at the Kunsthalle Leoben (Austria) “Egypt. Last Pharaohs. From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra” is dedicated to two very interesting historical personalities: the great Macedonian general Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII, the last Egyptian pharaoh.
The exhibition opened on April 25 and will run through November 1, 2015.
Over 200 objects, statues, reliefs, inscriptions and papyri, visualize art, culture and religion of this glorious time. Visitors will have the chance to admire several Ptolemaic kings and queens.
All exhibits illustrate the concept of art during the Ptolemaic period. But they also show the Greek influence. Numerous loans come from the most important Egyptian collections of international museums, including the Louvre in Paris, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Egyptian collection of the Berlin State Museums, the Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. A highlight of the exhibition is the statue of Cleopatra VII, from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
Opening hours: Daily from 9:00 until 18:00 clock
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Here you see a  reproduction, fully made of cork.  The model shows the Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria. It was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 280 and 247 BC which was between 393 and 450 ft (120 and 137 m) tall. It was one of the tallest man-made structures in the world for many centuries, and was regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Badly damaged by three earthquakes between AD 956 and 1323, it then became an abandoned ruin. It was the third longest surviving ancient wonder (after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the extant Great Pyramid of Giza) until in 1480 the last of its remnant stones were used to build the Citadel of Qaitbay on the site. In 1994, French archaeologists discovered some remains of the lighthouse on the floor of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour.

   

Taken on: July 3, 2015

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