Visual Timeline: Colossus of Rhodes

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305 BCE - 304 BCE: Demetrius I unsuccessfully lays siege to Rhodes.
 
 
292 BCE - 280 BCE: The Colossus of Rhodes, a representation of Helios, is built in Rhodes town harbour, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
 
 
228 BCE - 226 BCE: The Colossus of Rhodes is toppled by an earthquake.
 
 
225 BCE: Philo of Byzantium records The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
 
654 CE: According to Theophanes, a Jewish merchant transports the pieces of the fallen Colossus of Rhodes to Edessa for melting down.
 
 
 
 
 
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