The Colossus of Rhodes-has fallen 226 B.C.

…between two majestic waters: the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea…The Colossus of Rhodes—bronze sentinel of Helios and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—fell in 226 B.C. due to a powerful earthquake. It had stood for only about 56 years, having been completed around 282 B.C.

Interestingly, the ruins remained untouched for centuries, becoming a kind of mythic relic themselves. According to later accounts, the remnants were finally broken up and sold off around 653 CE, when Arab forces under Mu’awiya I conquered Rhodes.

Here, a collapsed 1/12 scale Aurora Models Silver Knight of Augsburg stands in to illustrate the calamity.