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Ephesus … Crown Of Turkish Archeology

By Don Kiselewski, MCC, altar of the temple, where
D.S., Palm Beach Gardens he found the floor of the
Travel Leaders earlier structures. The real
Six hundred years prize was a stone box that he
before St. Paul spoke to the unearthed, containing gold
Ephesians in the theater at coins and ivory dating from
Epheus, the city found its the time of Solomon.
origin. Although cloudy Ephesus was different
in exact history, it has than the other eleven Ionian
been said that Amazons cities that thrived along the
founded the city; however, western coast of Asia Minor
the original population was – it was the only one that did
made up of Carians and Lelegians. Colorful legends tell the not have a protected harbor
story of an Apollonian oracle enlisted to help the founders near the open sea. Although The Library of Celsus
determine the city’s location. Hidden in the mysticism of today the Mediterranean
his reply was that the city should be located with the sign has receded more than
of a fish and a boar. This seems to be not much of a clue three miles from Ephesus,
until Androklos, the son of Kodrus (the King of Athens), in ancient times a canal
was frying fish one day, on the northern side of Mt. Pion. led from the harbor to the
The fire got out of control and started burning the brush Cayster river, and from there
until a boar ran out of the fire to keep from getting cooked, to the sea. The city was
and the city was founded on the location. the terminal point of one
One of the earliest structures in the city was the Archaic of the greatest highways
Temple of Artemis built between 564 and 546 B.C. To leading to the interior of the
please his subjects, King Croesus of Lydia, who had country, and the reason for
conquered the city, presented the Ephesians with beautifully its commercial dominance.
carved columns for the temple, one containing his name. Ephesus reached its
History reflects that on the night that Alexander the Great golden age during the
was born (356 B.C.), Herostratus, a mentally unbalanced Roman era. Emperor
citizen, decided to set fire to the temple to gain fame, which Augustus deemed Ephesus
he accomplished. His actions, as misguided as they were, the capital of Asia Minor
caused the Ephesians to construct the Temple of Diana and proclaimed it to be “the
in its place … one of the Seven Wonders of the World. first and greatest metropolis
Alexander was so impressed with the structure when he of Asia.” It became the Roman amphitheater
visited Ephesus in 334 B.C. that he offered to pay the entire permanent residence of the
cost of reconstruction; however, the Ephesians refused. government of Rome, and
Today, the Temple of Diana (or Artemis) is nothing but its population swelled to
a huge hole in the earth, partly filled with water that dries 250,000. St. Paul arrived in
up in the summer. It was J.T. Wood, who after searching 53 A.D. to spread the word,
for seven years, located the temple in 1870. Marble from and gained enough followers
the structure had been removed for hundreds of years and to establish the first Christian
reused in mosques and public buildings of Constantinople church. His efforts did not
(Istanbul) and Ayasalouk. In 1904, an English archeologist go without opposition …
named D.G. Hogarth was allowed to core beneath the not from opposing religious
interest, but rather from
the secular community. It
seems as though the jeweler
Demetrius’ lucrative
business of selling silver
idols of Artemis was at stake.
This led to a showdown in
the theater, where shortly
thereafter Paul headed for

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