Produced in Association with: TLC Play Video Clip This is the un-told, little known almost unbelievable true story of how the Statue of Liberty came to be. You’ll discover…How the idea for constructing a giant statue and giving it to the US can be traced to a single dinner party near Versailles, France in April of 1865. How Egypt’s Great Pyramid inspired the creation of the Statue of Liberty. And that the statue is made of thin sheets of copper, which average about 4 feet square and are not much thicker than a penny!