Records fall far short of the impression made by a sight of the image,” was how Pausanias, a Greek traveller, described the statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

A mini-statue believed to have been used as a gift for Zeus between 1,050 and 700 B.C. was discovered at the archaeological site of Olympia, a sanctuary site dedicated to the god of thunder.

A "near-exact" 3D-printed scale plastic replica of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia created by Minnesota-based additive manufacturing company Stratasys Ltd to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the ...

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was destroyed in the fifth century AD. Now thanks to 3D printing, it lives again. Statue destroyed 1,500 years ago revived through 3D printing - CNET ...

Olympia was also known for the gigantic chryselephantine (ivory and gold on a wooden frame) statue of Zeus. It was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

When Paulus Emilus, Emperor of Rome, beheld the statue of Zeus Olympus which a Greek, Phidias of Athens, had erected at Olympia in ivory and gold, he trembled in all his limbs, and ordered ...

There were also thousands of statues in Olympia, the statue of Zeus being by far the most spectacular. This statue, built by the Athenian sculptor Pheidias in 430 BCE, was in the temple of Zeus.