Around 200 B.C., on a small island on the Aegean Sea. On the island lived the people of Rhodes they were called Rhodians. They hired a builder named Chares to build the statue. This was not just any statue it was the statue of Helios, the sun god of Rhodes. The colossus was 120 feet tall (that’s almost as tall as the statue of liberty). It took 12 years to build the Colossus.

The statue of Helios was made of bronze and had iron bars inside, to support it and was hollow on the inside .The colossus looks just like a bronze man, and he stands over the entrance of the harbor in Rhodes.