Andrew Schulz
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I mean, Rome had a lot of great public monuments, but if you walk outside of your apartment building, you immediately step in horseshit.
You're walking around in the mud.
And Rome was extremely dirty, like busy place.
It honestly would have been magnificent to like most people.
Sure.
But if you were an Alexandrian and you went and visited Rome, you'd be like, man, this place is a freaking dump.
And what happened to the lighthouse?
The lighthouse, I believe that in like 1490 or 1491, it's very, very close to that year.
There was an earthquake and the whole thing came down.
Right.
Well, maybe there were earthquakes over time, but at some point there was a decision made to quarry and level the entire thing and turn it into, it's now like a castle.
It's like a port castle now.
I forget exactly what it's called today.
Can we see the stones in the water?
Yeah, you may be able to find... Yeah, so that's what it was turned into today.
Oh, it was built on an island?
Yeah, so it was built on the island of Pharos.
Oh, great.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, it's about 700-some miles away.