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_EC 1603_druck META.pdf
Huge remains of walls were what many eighteenth-century travellers were expecting to find as the remains of the World Wonder temple. Frequently, the ruins of the Harbor Gymnasium in Ephesus were mistakenly thought to belong to the Artemision.1 For more than 1,000 years, the Temple of Artemis, the most celebrated shrine of classical antiquity, completely dis- appeared from view. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was the first mon- ument of the ancient East that Europeans and their governments set out to find, even before Heinrich Schliemann went to dig at Troy and Mycenae. The man who went looking for Artemis’ temple was an English engineer working for the company that was building the first railway lines through south-western Turkey, The Smyrna and Aydin Railway Company.2