Its reconstruction, in more grandiose form, began around 550 BC, under Chersiphron, the Cretan architect, and his son Metagenes. In the 7th century BC, it was destroyed by a flood. Callimachus, in his Hymn to Artemis, attributed it to the Amazons. The earliest version of the temple (a temenos) antedated the Ionic immigration by many years, and dates to the Bronze Age. Only foundations and fragments of the last temple remain at the site.
By 401 AD it had been ruined or destroyed. It was completely rebuilt twice, once after a devastating flood and three hundred years later after an act of arson, and in its final form was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey). The Temple of Artemis or Artemision ( Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον Turkish: Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis (associated with Diana, a Roman goddess). Timeline and map of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, including the Temple of Artemis
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