From the ‘7 Wonders of the World’ built in ancient times, only the Pyramid of Cheops has survived to the present day. The other six don’t exist today. One of the disappeared wonders is the famous Colossum of Rhodes (also known as Statue of Rhodes) on the Greek island of Rhodes. So how would this ancient wonder look if it could survive? The budget company Insurance Direct has answered this question by modeling the Colossum of Rhodes in 3D. Here is 3D model of the Statue of Rhodes in the most spectacular cases.
The Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic 33-metre-high statue of the sun god Helios which stood by the harbor of that city from c. 280 BCE, one of the most important trading ports in the ancient Mediterranean. Made by the local sculptor Chares using bronze, the statue soon appeared on contemporary travel writer’s lists of must-see sights and was thus known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Sadly, the giant Helios did not last long. Toppled by an earthquake in 228 or 226 BCE, its massive broken pieces cluttered the docks of Rhodes for a millennium before being melted down as scrap in the mid-7th century CE.
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