Imagine a statue so colossal it rivaled the Great Pyramid of Giza, a bronze giant that once stood guard over an ancient ...

The Colossus of Rhodes, once among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, stood at the harbor’s entrance, honoring the ...

the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. Why should a collection of monuments more than two millennia old still capture the imagination—especially ...

Though historians know very little about what the Colossus of Rhodes looked ... third century B.C., the massive bronze statue of Helios, patron god of Rhodes, towered over the Greek port until ...

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 ...

Built around 280 BC, this massive statue of the Greek sun god Helios was what sailors would ride under when entering the harbour at Rhodes. But even this statue couldn't stand upright for long ...