Why was Colossus destroyed?
Why was Colossus destroyed? 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.
Are there any pieces of the Colossus left?
800 years later people traded the bronze so nothing is left. The harbor is nice and there are 2 pillars that were erected with deer on top of them where the Colossus may have stood. Obviously there is nothing to see and it's a place where you use your imagination of what may have stood there in 226 BC.
What happened to the statue of Zeus?
In 391 AD, with the rise of Christianity, the Romans banned the Olympic Games and closed down the Greek temples. The statue of Zeus was subsequently transferred to Constantinople. In 462 AD, a fire destroyed the palace where the statue was located, causing it to be permanently lost.