Show Origin of Lighthouses Lighthouse The earliest lighthouses of or which records exist were the towers built by the Libyans and In Lower Egypt beacon fires being maintained In some of them by priests Lesches a Greek Greel poet B. B C. C mentions a lighthouse at now Cape Calle In the Troad which appears to have been the first light regularly maintained for mariners The famous Camous Pharos of ot Alexandria was rc regarded as one of ot the wonders of the world The rhe tower tower tow tow- er cr Is stated to have bave been GOO COO feet In height It was destroyed by earthquake In the Thirteenth century cen ecu Jury tury but remains are ure said to have haro been visible as late Inta as 1300 The rue name Pharos became the general term for all nIl JI lighthouses and the term terra has been used for forthe forthe forthe the science e of oC lighthouse construction tion |