Rhodes, the largest island of the Dodecanese archipelago in Greece, possesses a history spanning millennia. While currently a major Mediterranean tourist favourite, Rhodes is uniquely distinguished as ...

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

Its legacy endures. For little more than 50 years in the third century B.C., the massive bronze statue of Helios, patron god of Rhodes, towered over the Greek port until it was destroyed by an ...