Left: The Temple of Artemis, Ephesus, Turkey, from Wonders of the Past, volume II, (1933–34). Photo: The Print Collector / Print Collector / Getty Images.

The conversions created an economic problem. Ephesus was, at the time, world-renowned for a temple to the Greek goddess Artemis, one of the wonders of the ancient world.

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 ...

ferings for the dead, including terra cotta figurines, masks, lamps and a great variety of vessels were also found. The pile in front of Artemis’ temple yielded a great variety of lamps and ...

· Temple of Artemis at Ephesus -- Honored the Greek goddess of the hunt; took 120 years to build. Pieces of its 127 columns are at the British Museum in London. Ephesus is in modern-day Turkey.