Imagine a statue so colossal it rivaled the Great Pyramid of Giza, a bronze giant that once stood guard over an ancient ...
Step into the past and uncover the secrets of Rhodes Ancient Greece, where hidden treasures and untold stories await your ...
Keep an eye out, too, for a pair of Egyptians standing by the Colossus, who give a sense of just how immense these 60-foot-tall, 1,300-ton statues really are.
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.
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 ...
Protesters have been calling for an Oxford college's statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed Oriel College in Oxford has announced that it wants to take down the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes.
When the Roman emperor Septimius Severus restored the statues in hopes of gaining favor with Memnon, they ceased speaking their oracles. As you move around the Colossus, which is the northern one ...
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.