Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

This is a picture of the ruins of the Temple of Artemis, one of the original seven wonders of the world, and, the largest and most grand of the many temples to this goddess sprinkled around the Mediterranean by the Greeks.  Having been to Ephesus (the temple is located in a near-by city) several times over the years it is shocking how neglected this site is by the Turkish government.  We're talking about one of the Seven Wonders of the World here, and all that remains of it is that solitary column on the right side of this picture.  Those structures in the background have nothing to do with thenTemple. They are the ruins of a fortress, I believe, from two different periods in history, one Greek the other Roman.  All the terrain one sees in the foreground is littered with the remains of the building that once stood here.  Something should be done about this waste of an archaeologic site that thousands of tourists visit annually and see only building parts strewn about the landscape.






Anyone remember a fourth-century-BC Greek named Herostratus? He's the guy whose name history has recorded solely on account of his having burned down the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, in 356 BCE -- so that history would record his name.  I've often wondered how one burns down one of the structures created out of quarried stones?