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A bronze seal ring engraved with an image of the Lighthouse of Alexandria has been lifted from the sunken royal quarter of the city's Eastern Harbor. Egyptian authorities say it is the first known representation of the famous Pharos ever found on a seal ring, and the small object may tell us as much about the people who ran Alexandria's port as about the vanished wonder itself. The ring engraved with an image of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. (C. Gerigk / F. Goddio / Hilti Foundation/ MOTA ) A Wonder Shrunk to the Size of a Ring The announcement came from Hisham El-Leithy, Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, during a visit by Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathy