three hundred meters from Ephesus Museum on the right-hand side of the street prompting Ephesus and Kusadasi from Selcuk, towards Isa Bey Mosque, you will go over a vast gap. Over this extensive gap, which transforms into a pool of water in the spring months, the Temple of Artemis once used to stand. It had essential influence in the social and religious existence of Ephesus. The primary developers of the sanctuary were said to be the Amazons. Plinius the author, reports that the sanctuary was stripped seven times in its history.
At the point when Ephesus went under the tenet of Croesus, the King of the Lydians, he saw that the Ephesians had Kersifron, the engineer from Crete, and his child Metagenes, to reconstruct the sanctuary. He himself gave columns, the lower parts of which were enlivened with reliefs. This sanctuary of the Archaic period was blazed by a lunatic named Herostratos in the year 356 A. D. two hundred years after its development. At that point the sanctuary, which was one of the 7 Wonders of the World, was remade to the same estimations as the old sanctuary, that is 425 feet long, 220 feet in width and 60 feet in stature, and embellished with 120 columns in the Ionian style. From here, you can see Ayasuluk on which Isa Bey Mosque and the Church of St. John stand. Out there behind them the Byzantine mansion can be seen. The sanctuary was kept up to the year 111 A. D., yet it was torn down and looted by the Goths in 263 A.D. It was not raised again in light of the fact that Christianity had won its triumph, agnostic sanctuaries had been torn down or re-adjusted.
After this devastation, the vast majority of the marble columns were conveyed to Istanbul to be utilized as a part of the development of Hagia Sophia. The sparkle discharged by this pulverization fueled the light of society in Ephesus, which will reveal insight into history until the end of time. The uncommon finds of the sanctuary were, the first run through, found by English archeologists amidst the nineteenth century after long research and unearthing. The majority of the leftovers which have building esteem, and had a place with the Temple of Artemis, are currently in the British Museum. Some of them, made of gold and ivory.