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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2996696, member: 82322&quot;]During this period there was a giant bronze colossus just lying on the ground downtown!</p><p><br /></p><p>The 33 meter tall colossus had snapped at the knees during a 226 BC earthquake.&nbsp; The statue was so massive that after a Muslim army captured Rhodes in 653 AD it took 900 camels to haul the bronze away.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect that Rhodes&#039; source of bronze for coinage was the less-interesting mangled chunks of the statue.&nbsp; Recycling was part of their culture; the colossus itself was made from weapons Demetrius Poliorcetes&#039;s army left behind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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