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Ephesus … Crown Of Turkish Archeology

By Don Kiselewski, MCC, mosques and public buildings
D.S., Palm Beach Gardens of Constantinople (Istanbul)
Travel Leaders and Ayasalouk. In 1904, an
Six hundred years English archeologist named
before St. Paul spoke to the D.G. Hogarth was allowed to
Ephesians in the theater at core beneath the altar of the
Epheus, the city found its temple, where he found the
origin. Although cloudy in floor of the earlier structures.
exact history, it has been said The real prize was a stone box
that Amazons founded the that he unearthed, containing
city; however, the original gold coins and ivory dating
population was made up of from the time of Solomon.
Carians and Lelegians. Colorful legends tell the story of an Ephesus was different than
Apollonian oracle enlisted to help the founders determine the other eleven Ionian cities
the city’s location. Hidden in the mysticism of his reply was that thrived along the western
that the city should be located with the sign of a fish and a coast of Asia Minor – it was
boar. This seems to be not much of a clue until Androklos, the only one that did not have
the son of Kodrus (the King of Athens), was frying fish one a protected harbor near the
day, on the northern side of Mt. Pion. The fire got out of open sea. Although today the
control and started burning the brush until a boar ran out Mediterranean has receded Roman amphitheater
of the fire to keep from getting cooked, and the city was more than three miles from
founded on the location. Ephesus, in ancient times a
One of the earliest structures in the city was the Archaic canal led from the harbor to
Temple of Artemis built between 564 and 546 B.C. To please the Cayster river, and from
his subjects, King Croesus of Lydia, who had conquered there to the sea. The city was
the city, presented the Ephesians with beautifully carved the terminal point of one of the
columns for the temple, one containing his name. History greatest highways leading to
reflects that on the night that Alexander the Great was born the interior of the country, and
(356 B.C.), Herostratus, a mentally unbalanced citizen, the reason for its commercial
decided to set fire to the temple to gain fame, which he dominance.
accomplished. His actions, as misguided as they were, Ephesus reached its golden
caused the Ephesians to construct the Temple of Diana age during the Roman era.
in its place … one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Emperor Augustus deemed
Alexander was so impressed with the structure when he Ephesus the capital of Asia
visited Ephesus in 334 B.C. that he offered to pay the entire Minor and proclaimed it to
cost of reconstruction; however, the Ephesians refused. be “the first and greatest
Today, the Temple of Diana (or Artemis) is nothing but a metropolis of Asia.” It became
huge hole in the earth, partly filled with water that dries up in the permanent residence of
the summer. It was J.T. Wood, who after searching for seven the government of Rome, and
years, located the temple in 1870. Marble from the structure
had been removed for hundreds of years and reused in Ephesus … on page 16 The Temple of Hadrian

The remains of Artemision (also known as the Temple of
Artemis or Diana)

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