The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, stood at the entrance to Mandraki Harbour for roughly 54 years before an earthquake toppled it around 226 BC. Contrary to the popular image of a figure straddling the harbour mouth, no ancient source actually describes it that way — that depiction appears to have originated in a 16th-century engraving and stuck.
The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, stood at the entrance to Mandraki Harbour for roughly 54 years before an earthquake toppled it around 226 BC. Contrary to the popular image of a figure straddling the harbour mouth, no ancient source actually describes it that way — that depiction appears to have originated in a 16th-century engraving and stuck.