This wasn’t a figment of mythology, but a real engineering feat that left the ancient world in awe: the Colossus of Rhodes.

Around 280 B.C., an immense statue, the Colossus of Rhodes, was erected beside the entrance to the harbor on the Greek island ...

The statue was constructed in the image of Rhodes’s patron deity, the sun god Helios. Standing a towering 105 feet tall (according to contemporary sources), the Colossus of Rhodes was designed ...

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Though historians know very little about what the Colossus of Rhodes looked like, where it stood or how it was built, what is indisputable is that it was magnificent. Its legacy endures.

They are the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse ...

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The Colossus of Rhodes, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. SandStone Global produce the show, which will combine archaeological access, new research and cutting edge ...