What if I told you the Statue of Liberty was built to imitate a wonder of the ancient world? The colossus is the wonder of the ancient world that we know the least about. We don’t know where it stood, ...

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur is trying to get A $450 million statue of the Greek Titan Prometheus, called the “American Colossus,” built on Alcatraz Island. Ross Calvin, founder of the Denver-based ...

After the passing of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., the generals that succeeded him fought one another for control of the empire he left behind. One of the most brutal episodes of this ...

The mid-1980s "discovery" of the Colossus of Rhodes remains one of the most hilariously bizarre episodes in modern Greece.

Eli Hiller with Asad Hashim in Washington AFP Feb 6, 2026 Feb 6, 2026 Lying on its back at an Ohio sculpture studio, the 15-foot (4.6-meter) tall gold-leafed statue of US President Donald Trump dubbed ...