Lighthouse was built in the Ptolemaic era, on the foundations of the castle built by King Merneptah in the 19th family of the Pharaonic era, and consists of three floors: a square, octagonal and circular, and mirror reflects light the ships coming to the port of Alexandria, it has been renovated in the Islamic era by Al-Mutawakkil, Ahmad bin Toulon, Zahir Baybars and Sultan Qayet Bey and now called the " Qayet Bey Citadel."
Lighthouse was built in the Ptolemaic era, on the foundations of the castle built by King Merneptah in the 19th family of the Pharaonic era, and consists of three floors: a square, octagonal and circular, and mirror reflects light the ships coming to the port of Alexandria, it has been renovated in the Islamic era by Al-Mutawakkil, Ahmad bin Toulon, Zahir Baybars and Sultan Qayet Bey and now called the " Qayet Bey Citadel."
Behrens-Abouseif, D. The Islamic History of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Muqarnas
Vol. 23 (2006), pp. 1-14.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25482435
The above article is excellent. It seems that there are no surviving accounts of Sosastros' plans, but there are very valuable accounts of later modifications and repairs, mainly in travel writings.
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