any parts that survived up until today?
You mean the “wonder of the ancient world” known as the Colossus of Rhodes?
Reported to have been broken up and sold for scrap in the 7th century. So, nope, AFAIK.
Further details from the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
There was also a gigantic statue of (Nero?) called a Colossus (seems to have been a generic term for any 200 foot tall sculpture-- couldn’t have been many) next to which they built the Colosseum (which is where it gets its name, probably).
I think the real question is, if it had survived, what would’ve happened to it in 1903?
That doesn’t stop churches all over europe from having pieces of the true cross, 2000 years after the fact, or the holy prepuce either.
In fact, I’ve got some pieces of the colusses I’d be willing to sell right now.
It’d have gone obsolete. But it might still be a tourist attraction.
The story was that the remains were carted off by a metals dealer and melted down. I haven’t heard of any remnants of the statue surviving even into late classical times. See L. Sprague de Camp’s excellent novel about the Colossus, The Bronze God of Rhodes, especially his historical afterword.
We’ve got bits of the Mausoleum still on-site, and the pyramids are still there (except the outer skin). I’m not sure about the temple of Diana at Ephesus. I don’t think any of the other Wonders survive.
I was surprised to find that we still have bits of the gold-coated leaden statue of King George III from New York that was pulled down circa 1776 and melted into bullets. We even have the marble base. These parts are at the New York Hstorical Society and the Museum of the City of New York. But that was only about 225 years ago. I’d doubt finding an unburied or unsunk metal statue from classical times.
One day, a couple years ago, I added to my list of life goals seeing the Seven Wonders. For some reason or another, I’ve taken that goal far more seriously than I have my others, and have currently seen six of them. “Seen” being used loosely here, as only one still exists in any real form today. More correctly, I’ve stood 'round about where they once were and imagined them.
The Colossus of Rhodes:
This one not only doesn’t exist anymore, we’re not even sure where it was when it did. On Rhodes, obviously, and in sight of the harbour, but beyond those salient facts, there’s much division between accounts of the statue’s location. There are two pretty good guesses, and at neither is any sign at all that anything was once there. I’ve heard speculation (of the Discovery channel variety, so don’t put too much stock in it) that some of the structural stone elements may have been discarded and now rest at the bottom of the harbour, but there’s not a thing to support this notion.
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia:
There’s something to see here. Not the statue itself, sadly, but the foundations of the building it was in still exist. Not much, but all the same, when you’re out for Wonders, this is considered “something to see”.
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus:
There’s one column, marking where it stood. Parts of it are in the British Museum.
The Lighthouse at Alexandria:
Here’s another with something to see… sort of. The lighthouse is gone, and we have only the vaguest and contradictory ideas as to what it looked like, but some of the stone from it has been reused in a nearby (and much newer–comparatively speaking) castle. Large amounts of stone blocks litter the sea floor in the area, but these may or may not have been related to the lighthouse. If they are, this Wonder could be more or less intact, albeit disassembled and waterlogged.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus:
A good chunk of it is still around. The foundation exists at the site, and lots of stone from it is reused in a nearby castle. Some of the sculptures that decorated it survive and are in the British Museum.
The Great Pyramid of Giza:
This one’s still there. Same place and everything. Not entirely intact, but it might as well be.
(The seventh is in Iraq–not exactly a friendly place to going touring around at the moment, so the Hanging Gardens of Babylon will have to wait a bit.)