The Colossus of Rhodes
The Ancients
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How to Build Bronze Statues in the Ancient World
There is discussion about how it's built. A writer called Fylove Byzantium wrote a work on the Seven Wonders of the World in like the Second Century BC. He sees it as being built in sections, working their way up and then they would put these pits together to create the whole statue. Don't ask me more about the details of how it's put together because I don't really understand all that. What they do is they cast them in sections, like sort of arm or whatever it is, or half an arm, in casting pits. And there's evidence, so quite large casting pits,. And then they wouldput these pits togetherto create the whole statues.
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