It was early morning in Alexandria, Egypt, one day in March 1994. Asma el-Bakri, an Egyptian film-maker, 1 her diving equipment, took her camera and dived into the sea. What she 2 under the water was amazing – 3,000 enormous ancient stones and statues covered the bottom of the harbour. Asma 3 that this was the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Lighthouse was destroyed by an earthquake in 1303. 2 The Lighthouse of Alexandria, 4 2,300 years ago, was the first and greatest lighthouse in the world. Before this people 5 fires on hills to warn ships of dangerous rocks or to show the entrance to a harbour. The lighthouse was as tall as a modern skyscraper with 25 floors. At the top a fire 6 24 hours a day. It took twelve years to build. Several earthquakes in the area damaged the building but it continues to stand and show the way to ships. 3 Then, on 8th August 1303, there was an extremely violent earthquake. It shook the lighthouse and stones 7 to fall. The building leant more and more and finally 8 into the sea. After 1,600 years the lighthouse was no more. A hundred and seventy five years later the Egyptians built a castle in the same place, and people slowly 9 about the lighthouse and where it stood. 4 Although they did not remember its position they 10 that there was a lighthouse from old pictures and books. And now, because of Asma’s discovery, we know that it really did exist