Near Ephesus. Site of the great Temple of Artemis once excavated here and later silted over. Ruins under soil

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Department · approximately 1900 to 1920 · Library of Congress — G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

A photograph of the site of the great Temple of Artemis near Ephesus, evoking the silversmiths' fear that "the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and she will be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship" (Acts 19:27).

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