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In The Murky Waters Of The Mediterranean Lie The Ruins Of Alexandrias Fabled Lighthouse, A Wonder Of The Ancient World Destroyed By Earthquakes In The Middle Ages. While Mapped By Archeologists, Most Of These 2,000 Stone Remnants Will Never Be Retrieved And Reconstructed: The Pharos Lighthouse Can Only Be Inferred. But Above The Surface, The Lighthouse Is Ubiquitous In The Modern City, Its Image Wholly Imagined, With Little Resemblance To The Stones At The Bottom Of The A Richly Braided, Intimately Told Narrative Of Text And Image, Yorkborn Artist And Writer Ellie Ga (born 1976) Takes The Reader With Her On Dive Boats And Into The Water, Behind The Walls Of Hidden Museums, Through City Streets Pasted With Political Graffiti, Into The Offices Of Archeologists And The Homes Of Alexandriansjust As Egypt Is On The Cusp Of Its First Post-revolution Election.