Leto Atrides
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is the zeus statue still around? or is it destroyed?
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and what happend to the colossus statue? how was it destory?? have they found any parts from it??
They're both destroyed, all of the ancient ones except the Great Pyramid are gone now.
The Colossus fell down in an earthquake. The left it there, fallen, for years, as they thought they had offended the god Helios (who the statue is of) and so didn't want to move or rebuild it. When Arabs took over Rhodes they sold off the bronze as scrap. There are many random pieces of bronze statues around people claim are from it, but none are definitely real.
The Statue of Zeus was probably destroyed with the temple it was in. The circumstances of this are unsure, probably abandoned with the advent of Christianity. The statue was a wood frame covered in ivory and gold sheets (called a chryselephantine statue), so it wasn't that sturdy and probably didn't last for more than a century or so without upkeep.