<Li> It was described in the Zhu fan zhi ("Records of Foreign Peoples") by Zhao Rugua (1170--1228), a Chinese customs inspector for the southern port city of Quanzhou during the Song dynasty . </Li> <Li> Ibn Battuta visited the lighthouse in 1326, finding "one of its faces in ruins," yet he could enter and noted a place for the guardian of the lighthouse to sit and many other chambers . When he returned in 1349, he "found that it had fallen into so ruinous a condition that it was impossible to enter it or to climb up to the doorway ." </Li> <Li> In Robert Silverberg's science fiction novelette Sailing to Byzantium (1985), a culture of the far future recreates ancient cities, full with every detail, among them Alexandria; several episodes of Silverberg's story take place on the rebuilt Pharos . </Li> <Ul> <Li> The lighthouse was one of the Wonders of the World that could be built in the 1991 computer game Civilization by Sid Meier, giving a bonus to ship movement . It would appear again in all the latter installments of the series . </Li> <Li> It can be built as a monument in the city building strategy games Pharaoh: Cleopatra (2000) and Children of the Nile (2004). </Li> <Li> The lighthouse is featured as a wonder in the 2013 strategy game, Total War: Rome II, where it gives a minor boost to the faction occupying Alexandria . </Li> <Li> The lighthouse was featured in the action - adventure video game Assassins Creed Origins released on October 27, 2017 . It is set in Ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period (48 BC). Ubisoft Montreal's research on Ancient Egypt was done with the help of French archaeologist and Egyptologist Jean - Claude Golvin . </Li> </Ul>

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