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The Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic statue built in the image of the Greek sun god Helios. The Statue was one of the seven ancient wonders, and also housed one of the pieces of the Golden Capstone.

Fictional History[]

Seven Ancient Wonders[]

After Alexander the Great oversaw the disassembly of the Golden Capstone, he arranged for each of the Capstone's component Pieces to be hidden by priests of the Cult of Amun Ra within the constructs that would become known as the seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

When the Rhodians desired to build a statue of their sun god Helios, the Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy I (and later his son II) offered to fund the construction, in order to hide the second highest Piece of the Capstone. Construction began in 292, and some time over the next ten years the Capstone Piece was hidden as the rightmost pendant in the Colossus's necklace.

Unfortunately, only 56 years after its completion, the Colossus of Rhodes met its unfortunate end during the 226 BC Rhodes earthquake, its knees snapping and leaving the upper portion of the statue to fall over onto the land. Ptolemy III offered to pay for the reconstruction of the statue, but the Rhodians were afraid that they had offended Helios, and they declined. Rather than risk the Capstone Piece become lost, Ptolemy III's agents in Rhodes stole the 16 foot head of the Colossus and spirited it away on a barge heading back towards Egypt.

The Colossus's head was later relocated to an old gold mine modified by Imhotep V in the Sudan, hidden within the mine's innermost cave and guarded by a number of traps. Soon afterwards, the Callimachus Text was updated with the clue that the Capstone Piece was hidden within the mine, while text inscribed in the Word of Thoth would be left as a clue to which of the three pendants on the Colossus's necklace was the real Piece.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Colossus of Rhodes was left lying in ruins for over 800 years, until an Arabian force invaded Rhodes in 653 AD and had the remnants of the Colossus melted down for its bronze.

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The Six Sacred Stones[]

Jack did eventually obtain the Colossus of Rhodes's head and brought it back to his farm, hiding it in an old nickel mine along with the other treasures he had gathered.

When the farm was invaded by Chinese forces, Jack took the uppermost piece of the Capstone from the mine's cavern and detonated the mine entrance, hiding the head of the Colossus from the rest of the world.

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