Most people know the Colossus of Rhodes as one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, but there are many surprising facts about the statue.

After the passing of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., the generals that succeeded him fought one another for control of the empire he left behind. One of the most brutal episodes of this ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For 20 years, Nikolaos Kotziamanis, a Greek Cypriot sculptor living in ...

For a short 54 years, the mighty Colossus of Rhodes towered over the harbor of the ancient city Rhodes on the island of the same name. Unfortunately, an earthquake toppled the 98-foot-tall bronze ...

A rendering of the Colossus of Rhodes statue reboot. (Photo: Colossus of Rhodes Project) The statue Colossus of Rhodes sat on a podium near the Harbor of Rhodes for 52 years until an earthquake struck ...

Now a team of young European architects has concocted an immodest proposal to resurrect a supersized 21 st-century version of the original statue, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ...

By Georgeanne Brennan Greece has somewhere between 3,000 and 6,000 islands. Even at the lower number that is a lot of islands ...

One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World could be returning to Greece, if plans to reconstruct the famous Colossus of Rhodes get the green light A 98 foot-high bronze and iron statue of Helios, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For 20 years, Nikolaos Kotziamanis, a Greek Cypriot sculptor living in ...