Here is another wonder is waiting for you. This wonder just survive only 56 year after its completion. Beside this colossus of Rhodes has its share in world’s wonders. Although The Colossus of Rhodes was a big statue but it also an emblem of unity to the people who lived at Mediterranean island– Rhodes.
Where It is..
It is located at the entrance of Rhodes’s Mediterranean island harbor in Greece.
History
Ancient Greece was consist of small city-states having less power beyond their boundary. On Rhodes island there were three states: lalysos, Kamiros, and Lindos. These three city get united to form a single state and established Rhodes as their capital. Due to this union they get strong economics relationships with Ptolemy I Soter of Egypt.
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This ancient Wonder was not listed as wonder because of its size it got place as Wonder because of its beauty though this also a burial place of a king, it fascinated its visitors for years. Being a burial place of a King haven’t mean that it got place in list of Wonders and neither it got that because of the size like pyramid. It became famous because of its astonishing beauty. It’s situated in the southwest Turkey’s city Bodrum on the Aegean Sea.
The ancient Persian kingdom was expanded to Mesopotamia, Northern India, Syria, Egypt, and Asia Minor because of such vast empire the king failed to have control over it, and it became hard to keep control on all those captured lands. From 377 to 353 BC King Mausollos of Caria and he moved his capital to Halicarnassus. There is nothing that we can found about Maussollos life except construction of his tomb. The idea about this project was conceived by his wife and sister Artemisia and its believed that construction of tomb was started in King’s life.
The Mausoleum was completed around 350 BC, it was completed 3 years after the death of the Maussollos.
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