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

Greek is the official language of Rhodes ... Legend has it that the famous Colossus of Rhodes once stood nearby, symbolizing the sun god Helios. Over the centuries, the Fort witnessed the rise ...

The era in which Strabo lived, the saddle between the first centuries bc and ad, was highly receptive to kolossourgiai. The ...

Though historians know very little about what the Colossus of Rhodes looked ... patron god of Rhodes, towered over the Greek port until it was destroyed by an earthquake in 226 or 225 B.C. Three ...

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 ...