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Ruins of the Basilica. The Basilica of St. John (Greek: Βασιλική του Αγίου Ιωάννη του Θεολόγου) was a basilica in Ephesus.It was constructed by Justinian I in the 6th century at a site where John the Apostle was said to have been buried.
Ephesus (/ ˈ ɛ f ɪ s ə s /; [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Ἔφεσος, romanized: Éphesos; Turkish: Efes; may ultimately derive from Hittite: 𒀀𒉺𒊭, romanized: Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece [3] [4] on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.
Façade of the Library of Celsus at sunset. The Library of Celsus (Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη του Κέλσου) is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, today located near the modern town of Selçuk, in the İzmir Province of western Turkey.
On October 18, 1881, relying on the descriptions in the book by Brentano based on his conversations with Emmerich, a French priest, the Abbé Julien Gouyet discovered a small stone building on a mountain overlooking the Aegean Sea and the ruins of ancient Ephesus in Turkey. He believed it was the house described by Emmerich and where the Virgin ...
A legend of the Late Middle Ages claims that some of the columns in the Hagia Sophia were taken from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, but there is no truth to this story. [31] [32] The main primary sources for the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus are Pliny the Elder's Natural History, [33] writings by Pomponius Mela, [34] and Plutarch's Life of ...
Ruins of Paeonius's temple of Apollo at Didyma. Paeonius of Ephesus (/ p iː ˈ oʊ n i ə s / Ancient Greek: Παιώνιος Paiṓnios) (fl. c. 420 to 380 BCE) was an ancient Greek architect, one of the builders of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. In conjunction with Demetrius, he completed the great temple at Ephesus, which Chersiphron had ...
How exactly humans expanded into the Caribbean islands has long been a ... Ruins of 5,600-year-old shelter upend history of Caribbean island, study reveals ... 2024 at 9:49 AM. Photo from Jorgen ...
The site of Magnesia on the Maeander was once identified with the modern Güzelhisar; since then the ruins of a temple to Artemis were found at Inck-bazar, and the latter is considered a more likely site. A further important monument in Magnesia was the stadium in the south-western part of the city with a length of 185,90 meters. [25]