There is some confusion regarding the location of the statue. It stood close to one hundred and ten feet tall and with the addition of at least one fifty foot high marble pedestal, it reached over one hundred and sixty feet into the sky. The Colossus of Rhodes was completed in 280 BC (Chares is believed to have committed suicide shortly before it was finished).
He used iron tie bars as framework and giant plates of brass as skin. In 292 BC, the sculptor Chares began work on the statue. The leaders of Rhodes decided to celebrate the victory by constructing a mammoth statue dedicated to Helios, the god of the sun. A subsequent siege also failed and the Cyprus army was forced to flee, leaving behind most of its equipment. Unhappy with the situation, King Antigonus I Monophthalmus of Cyprus ordered his son to invade Rhodes. After the death of Alexander the Great, it joined forces with Ptolemaic Egypt to control trade in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. Rhodes was a powerhouse of the ancient world. So, what happened to it? The Colossus of Rhodes? Mysteriously, this behemoth disappeared over a thousand years ago and has been missing ever since. At over 100 feet tall, it stood far higher than any other statue of its time. The Colossus of Rhodes was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
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