Does any of the Colossus of Rhodes still exist?

In 653, an Arab force under Muslim general Muawiyah I conquered Rhodes, and the statue was completely destroyed and the remains sold. Today, the statues of two deers named Elefos and Elafina are standing where once stood the feet of the Colossus. There have been proposals to build a new Colossus.



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Directly following the end of World War II, the British destroyed eight out of the ten Colossus machines at Bletchley Park, due to paranoia of the Russians gaining secret information about it during the Cold War.

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