It stood for only half a century before being toppled over by an earthquake; it is said, probably apocryphally, that its remains were bought and pawned off by a Jewish scrap metal dealer in 654 AD.
It stood for only half a century before being toppled over by an earthquake; it is said, probably apocryphally, that its remains were bought and pawned off by a Jewish scrap metal dealer in 654 AD. Originally created by Chares of Lindos, it cost 300 talents and was paid for by spoils taken from the army of Demetrius Poliorcetes after a war resulting from an alliance with Ptolemaic Egypt. Pliny the Elder hinted at the epic size of this statue, which stood on a 50 foot high marble pedestal, and Strabo noted that visitors continued to visit its site even hundreds of years after its fall. FTP, name this massive statue of Helios, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which once stood on its namesake Greek island.
It stood for only half a century before being toppled over by an earthquake; it is said, probably apocryphally, that its remains were bought and pawned off by a Jewish scrap metal dealer in 654 AD.
{Colossus of Rhodes} (prompt on {Colossus})