The plan calls for a new statue that's way taller than the ancient one. At 400 feet tall, the new Helios would be nearly ... which is appropriate for the Greek god of the sun.

To celebrate their victory, the Rhodians decided to build a giant statue of their sun god, Helios. They had won the war because of his help and now they wanted to show their appreciation.

Imagine a statue so colossal it rivaled the Great Pyramid of Giza, a bronze giant that once stood guard over an ancient ...

While currently a major Mediterranean tourist favourite, Rhodes is uniquely distinguished as the location of the Colossus of Rhodes, a monumental bronze statue of the sun-god Helios, and one of ...

dedicated to Helios. This explanation seems logical: The stadium was where athletes from all of Greece competed during the Halieia, the festival in honor of the sun god. In this case, the statue ...

Fotis Hatzidiacos, mayor of Rhodes, has given his backing to the reconstruction of the Colossus of Rhodes – the 30m-tall bronze statue of the sun god, Helios, raised at the mouth of the island's ...

The statue was constructed in the image of Rhodes’s patron deity, the sun god Helios. Standing a towering 105 feet tall (according to contemporary sources), the Colossus of Rhodes was designed ...

It was certainly one way to let outsiders know who was boss: In fact, this giant statue of the sun god Helios was sculpted from the melted-down weapons and shields of the Cypriot army, which ...

In Greek mythology, the lyre-playing God Apollo became associated with the sun. This statue of Apollo is at ... written legal documents in history. Helios, sometimes associated with Apollo in ...