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The Colossus of Rhodes, with Michael Denis Higgins

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Colossus of Roads

It would have been technically impossible to build a statue with the legs apart like that. It's much more likely that it stood on a low mound near the edge of the harbor. In fact, the place where we think it stood is actually covered by the palace of the Crusader Knights.

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