The site’s earliest known temple to Artemis was a 100-foot-long building with an apse that was erected toward the end of the eighth century b.c., although a smaller structure whose purpose is ...

In 356 B.C.E., a man named Herostratus slipped into the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, Turkey, and set fire to its wooden roof, reducing much of the giant structure—which the Greek writer and ...