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A gargantuan gold-and-ivory statue of the god Zeus—some 40 feet high—dazzled the ancient world when it was built in the 5th century B.C. After standing for 8 centuries, it disappeared, and its ...

The site is home to numerous temples and structures, including the Temple of Zeus, which once housed one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Statue of Zeus. It's a place where history ...

Standing for a little more than 50 years in the third century B.C., Rhodes’s titanic statue of Helios made a colossal impact on Western art, history, and imagination.

The statue of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus was discovered in 1877, but its influential presence makes it a timeless piece ...

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece (Image credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Built around 450 B.C., the seated figure of Greece's chief Olympic deity was 40 feet (12 m).

The graphic shows the Statue of Olympian Zeus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The Illustration based on the description by the historian Pausanias.

At 41ft high, the gold Statue of Zeus at Olympia was another giant of the ancient world. Zeus - Artemis's father - was the supreme master of all the Greek gods, and the statue of him certainly did ...

The first recorded victor at the Olympics was Coroebus of Elis. A cook by profession, Coroebus won the event called the "stadion"—a footrace of just under 200 meters, run in a straight line.

Phidias’ Statue of Zeus at Olympia was taken to Constantinople in the fourth century A.D. and was later destroyed in a palace fire, but the sanctuary itself—near the first Olympic Stadium ...