In 356 B.C.E., a man named Herostratus slipped into the Temple of Artemis ... which the Greek writer and physicist Philon of Byzantium referred to as a wonder of the ancient world—to ashes.

Artemis was the virgin Greek goddess of hunting and the moon ... One of the finds at an ancient temple dedicated to Artemis. (credit: Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece) Giving insight into ...