c. 100 m · lit for over 1,000 years · brought down by an earthquake, 1303
For a thousand years this was the tallest structure on Earth, and every night without exception, it was on fire.
Ships found the coast of Egypt by a flame lit on top of a tower nobody built taller again for centuries. Then, in 1303, an earthquake took it down. The fire went out. No one alive has ever seen it lit.
We put it back — same flame, same dark, same sky it burned under before anyone thought to write it down.
Some rooms need a light that doesn't go out. Yours doesn't have to wait thirteen centuries for one.
