The bronze of the Colossus is sold for scrap
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Arab forces took Rhodes in 653–654 CE and, by the surviving accounts, removed the fallen bronze of the Colossus and sold it. The statue had lain broken on the ground for roughly nine hundred years, far longer than it had stood upright.
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- Story
- Arab forces took Rhodes in 653–654 CE and, by the surviving accounts, removed the fallen bronze of the Colossus and sold it. The statue had lain broken on the ground for roughly nine hundred years, far longer than it had stood upright.
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- Colossus of Rhodes
- The bronze of the Colossus is sold for scrap
- Connections
- Colossus of Rhodes
- Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
- Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
- The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
- An earthquake breaks the Colossus of Rhodes at the knee
- The bronze of the Colossus is sold for scrap
- Evidence
- Ancient authority for the Colossus standing seventy cubits, roughly 33 m, and for its ruined state persisting centuries after the earthquake.
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