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The Colossus of Rhodes is an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios and stands more than 30 meters over the harbor at Rhodes. The statue was built by Chares of Lindos, a pupil of Lysippos, between 292 and 280 BC, commemorating the raising of Demetrios Poliorcetes' siege of Rhodes. This statue, being one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was toppled by an earthquake in 225 BC. Until 653 AD, the fallen statue was left in its toppled state. In 653 AD came in the Arabs who broke the remains of this historically significant statue and sold off the bronze part of the statue for scrap. There were images of this famous statue on the coins of that period. Colossi also existed in other parts of the ancient world like the Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis at Athens and the Zeus in the temple of Olympia in Greece.
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