What if I told you the Statue of Liberty was built to imitate a wonder of the ancient world? The colossus is the wonder of ...

The Colossus, Chares’s audacious “second sun,” was not destined to last for centuries: An earthquake destroyed it and parts of the city of Rhodes in 226 or 225 B.C., little more than half a ...

Despite its grandeur, the Colossus was not destined to stand the test of time. In 226 BC, a devastating earthquake struck ...

Early in God of War II, after using a ballista to launch him onto the Colossus of Rhodes’s face, Kratos and I begin working our way through its insides. It’s the an inversion of that last ...

Fotis Hatzidiacos, mayor of Rhodes, has given his backing to the reconstruction of the Colossus of Rhodes – the 30 metre-tall (98-foot) bronze statue of the sun god, Helios, raised at the mouth ...

Whether the Colossus of Rhodes watched over the harbor from its mouth or from high on a hill further inland, it was no match for the gods of nature. When an earthquake hit the city in 226 B.C., it ...

The Colossus of Rhodes has also left an impact on real-world monuments, notably New York’s Statue of Liberty.

Rhodes was also renowned for its 3rd Century statue of the sun god, Helios, better known as the Colossus of Rhodes. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it stood for only 54 years before ...