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

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While holidaying in Rhodes, an Athenian war hero becomes involved in two plots to overthrow the tyrannical king: one from Rhodian patriots, and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

Until an earthquake in 226 BCE knocked it down, the Colossus of Rhodes, a 98-foot-high iron and bronze statue of the Greek god Helios, sat near the harbor of Rhodes, Greece, for 54 years.

In the waning hours of 2015, as we reflected on the images produced by a year dominated by Europe’s migrant crisis, the world hoped that policy changes might ease the burden on thousands of ...

Around 280 B.C., an immense statue, the Colossus of Rhodes, was erected beside the entrance to the harbor on the Greek island of Rhodes. The ancients named it one of the Seven Wonders of the ...

Imagine the Colossus of Rhodes, the Statue of Zeus and the other ... structure in modern society with bustling tourists snapping photos with smartphones. Only one of the original seven survives ...

This truly colossal statue and its companion are all that remains of a huge mortuary temple built by the pharaoh Amenophis III (Amenhotep) in the 14th century B.C. The temple, which the pair of ...

Kyle Ross-Imagn Images Harper next met Severino in ... the one with “The Showman” on it. The Colossus of Rhodes stood for 54 years before it was felled by an earthquake.

British intelligence has released "rare and never-before-seen images" of the World War II era "Colossus" code-breaking computer. GCHQ, the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency, said in a ...

Karnad's death signals the departure of a colossus who straddled many creative ... He won the prestigious Rhodes scholarship to study mathematics at Oxford. He thrived there and also became ...