Andrew Schulz

And the Lighthouse of Alexandria was built so well that it fell the year before Columbus arrived in the Americas.

I'm pretty sure.

It's very, very, very close.

So how long is that?

It must have stood for 1,600 years or so, or 1,700 years or something like that.

But there were...

And travelers throughout antiquity, like, let's say, the late ancient times, medieval, dark ages, are traveling to Egypt and seeing it.

And they see it, like, slowly decay, but they describe the materials that were used to build it.

And they say that there were 65-ton red granite stones that were used to build the lighthouse.

And we have some dimensions of it.

And the blocks are just sitting in the water today.

If you go to Alexandria, like, another...

His friend who's a historian, who's a Roman historian, he and I went and looked and there's these massive stones sitting out there.

And they say that the library was made out, it was this huge stone building made out of like, you know, the greatest marble and granite that could be quarried or that could be, you know, gathered.

And the lighthouse itself was within just a few feet of being the same height of the Great Pyramid.

So it's the Ptolemies showing the people of Egypt we're going back.

And it was the single greatest city ever built in the ancient world, arguably.

Rome at no point would have ever had the kind of magnificence that Alexandria had.

Really?

No, no.