Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)

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1. Story
2. The great Ionic temple of Artemis near modern Selçuk in western Türkiye, rebuilt several times on the same spot. The temple standing in 356 BCE was burned by an arsonist named Herostratus who, by the ancient account, wanted his name remembered; it was rebuilt on a still larger scale. The final structure was pulled down by a Christian crowd in 401 CE. Excavation from the nineteenth century recovered sculptured column drums and other fragments, many of which are now in the British Museum. A single re-erected column stands on the waterlogged foundation platform today.
3. Knowledge
4. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
5. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
6. Connections
7. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
8. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
9. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
10. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
11. Herostratus burns the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
12. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is pulled down
13. Mausoleum sculpture is removed to the British Museum
14. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
15. Hanging Gardens (of Babylon, or of Nineveh)
16. Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
17. Colossus of Rhodes
18. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
19. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
20. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
21. Philo of Byzantium (the Paradoxographer)
22. Antipater of Sidon
23. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
24. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
25. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
26. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
27. Evidence
28. The earliest surviving text assembling seven marvels into a single list, and evidence that the canon originally included the walls of Babylon rather than the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
29. The fullest ancient description of the wonders as a set, written centuries after most had been ruined, and by a later Paradoxographer rather than the 3rd-century BCE engineer Philo Mechanicus.
30. That the surviving physical remains of two ancient wonders are held as museum collections in London rather than at their sites.