In 356 B.C.E., a man named Herostratus slipped into the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus ... Philon of Byzantium referred to as a wonder of the ancient world—to ashes. This wasn’t the first ...
Temples dedicated to respective Greek gods of the pantheon could be found in every corner of ancient Greece, but which was ...
More than 2,000 years ago, someone drafted a list of what they thought were the seven man-made wonders of the ancient world. From the Pyramid of Giza to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, historian ...
A team of archaeologists from Switzerland and Greece have been working for the last four years to excavate the 7th century BC temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis, in hopes of uncovering ...
This vast Artemision is mentioned in several ancient texts ... Denis Knoepfler - set out in search of the lost temple of Artemis. His investigations soon led him into the hinterland of the ...