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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The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1303, and now, ...

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.

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 ...

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 third century BC the city of Rhodes, in celebration of the defeat of Demetrius I of Macedonia, built the Colossus, a ...

Now it was 6–6 going to the bottom of the ... the one with “The Showman” on it. The Colossus of Rhodes stood for 54 years before it was felled by an earthquake. It took an act of God to ...

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 ...

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 ...

As you move around the Colossus, which is the northern one of the two, watch for its southern companion in the background and the range of hills to the west, wherein lie the Valley of the Kings ...