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Ephesus … Crown Of Turkish Archeology

By Don Kiselewski, MCC, up in the summer. It was J.T. Wood, who after searching
D.S., Palm Beach Gardens for seven years, located the temple in 1870. Marble from
Travel Leaders the structure had been removed for hundreds of years and
reused in mosques and public buildings of Constantinople
Six hundred years before (Istanbul) and Ayasalouk. In 1904, an English archeologist
St. Paul spoke to the Ephesians named D.G. Hogarth was allowed to core beneath the altar of
in the theater at Epheus, the the temple, where he found the floor of the earlier structures.
city found its origin. Although The real prize was a stone box that he unearthed, containing
cloudy in exact history, it gold coins and ivory dating from the time of Solomon.
has been said that Amazons Ephesus was different than the other eleven Ionian cities
founded the city; however, the that thrived along the western coast of Asia Minor – it was
original population was made the only one that did not have a protected harbor near the
up of Carians and Lelegians. Colorful legends tell the story of The Temple of Hadrian open sea. Although today the Mediterranean has receded
an Apollonian oracle enlisted to help the founders determine more than three miles from Ephesus, in ancient times a
the city’s location. Hidden in the mysticism of his reply was Ephesus in 334 B.C. that he offered to pay the entire cost of canal led from the harbor to the Cayster river, and from
that the city should be located with the sign of a fish and a boar. reconstruction; however, the Ephesians refused. there to the sea. The city was the terminal point of one of
This seems to be not much of a clue until Androklos, the son Today, the Temple of Diana (or Artemis) is nothing but
of Kodrus (the King of Athens), was frying fish one day, on the a huge hole in the earth, partly filled with water that dries Ephesus on page 27
northern side of Mt. Pion. The fire got out of control and started
burning the brush until a boar ran out of the fire to keep from Paid Advertisement
getting cooked, and the city was founded on the location.
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