Late Middle Ages · Middle East · Disaster
1344
Earthquake and tsunami devastate Alexandria
1344
A violent earthquake shook the eastern Mediterranean, toppling the remains of the Pharos lighthouse - one of the Seven Wonders - into Alexandria's harbor. The great beacon, already damaged by earlier tremors, would never be rebuilt. Its submerged stones lay forgotten beneath the waves for six and a half centuries.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.