David is truly a colossus, at nearly 6 metres tall and weighing six tons, it took four days and 40 men to move the statue half a mile from Michelangelo's workshop.
In Aswan however, a city very close to Egypt's southern border, the river is upstaged by a colossus which took 10 years to complete and used up enough building materials to have constructed 17 Great pyramids at Giza.