Today in History: The Seventh Wonder of the World Burned

On this day (July 22) in 401 the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (in modern day Turkey) was burnt to the ground. Antipater of Sidon described the temple as follows when he listed his 7 Wonders of the World: "I have set my eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for chariots, and the statute of Zeus by the Alpheus, and the hanging gardens, and the colossus of the Sun, and the huge labour of the high pyramids, and the house of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, 'Lo, apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so grand.'"