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Nobody actually knows what the Colossus's stance was or even what it looked like, But it is accepted by experts that the statue didnt stand in the harbour as many later artists suggested but instead the general belief is that it stood on the hill over looking the town. But the colossus stood for almost 60 years before it was brought down by an earthquake in 224 BCE. So not only is the picture structually impossible (It would need a third point or leg to be on the ground to keep it standing) but it also wasn't in the harbour as the picture presents.
But if you want to go down the subject historical inaccuracies, I suggest you look up the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Jams. Structually in the ruins of Babylon there is no evidence for their existance at all which as a result has led to many scholars and historians to question their existance entirely due to that lack of evidence. Historians writing around the time don't mention them and the first mention of them is after the believed date of their destruction so their is no contemporary accounts of them. It is believed that authors who mention them were purely representing a romantic ideal of an eastern garden rather than any building covered in a garden with water channels as presented in much later paintings and drawings. Many experts believe the real gardens were actually the just gardens belonging to Assyrian king Sennacherib (704–681 BC) who built gardens in his capital city of Nineveh.
But if you want to go down the subject historical inaccuracies, I suggest you look up the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Jams. Structually in the ruins of Babylon there is no evidence for their existance at all which as a result has led to many scholars and historians to question their existance entirely due to that lack of evidence. Historians writing around the time don't mention them and the first mention of them is after the believed date of their destruction so their is no contemporary accounts of them. It is believed that authors who mention them were purely representing a romantic ideal of an eastern garden rather than any building covered in a garden with water channels as presented in much later paintings and drawings. Many experts believe the real gardens were actually the just gardens belonging to Assyrian king Sennacherib (704–681 BC) who built gardens in his capital city of Nineveh.
