Ephesus is located in modern Turkey

Ephesus is located in modern Turkey

Ephesus is located in modern Turkey and modern Turkey is located in the Europe continent and the Asian continent. Ephesus is located exactly in the Asian Part.

According to the archaeologists Ephesus was first inhabited during the Neolithic Period which is around 8000 BC. Then Ephesus was known to Hittites as Apasa and was situated in the land of Arzawa, West Anatolia. After the Trojan war with the migrations from Mainland Greece, good mixture civilizations started to arouse.

Ephesus was not destroyed however since the harbor was filled by alluvial soil, eventually abandoned.

Ephesus was known to Hittite writings as Apasa and being an Ionian site started to know as Ephesus.

The history of archaeological research in Ephesus dates back to 1863 when British engineer John Turtle Wood began searching for the remains of the Temple of Artemis. Six years later, he succeeded in identifying its location and then dedicated five years to the excavations in this area. The next round of archaeological work in Ephesus took place from 1895 to 1913 and was conducted by German and Austrian archaeologists under the direction of Otto Benndorf and Carl Humann. In 1898, Benndorf founded the Austrian Archaeological Institute, which has been conducting archaeological studies in Ephesus ever since.

According to the archaeologists Ephesus was first inhabited during the Neolithic Period which is around 8000 BC. Then Ephesus was known to Hittites as Apasa and was situated in the land of Arzawa, West Anatolia. After the Trojan war with the migrations from Mainland Greece, good mixture civilizations started to arouse.

The evangelist Paul wrote his letter to the citizens of Ephesus while he was in Rome, the first letter to the 7 churches in Revelation chapters 2-3 was written to Ephesus and when he came to Ephesus he stayed for 2 years.
Ephesus appears in 17 Bible verses: Acts 18:19, Acts 18:21, Acts 18:24, Acts 19:1, Acts 19:17, Acts 19:26, Acts 19:35, Acts 20:16, Acts 20:17, 1 Cor 15:32, 1 Cor 16:8, Eph 1:1, 1 Tim 1:3, 2 Tim 1:18, 2 Tim 4:12, Rev 1:11 and Rev 2:1.

Starting from the Neolithic period till the Archaic period no one exactly knows the ruler of the site. After the Trojan war is an Ionian site and during the Archaic period, it is known that there had been a good mixture of cultures. Then there is a period of Lydian rule and then the Persians captured the whole West Anatolia and Ephesus as well. Then come the Hellenistic period and the Roman Empire period, Seljuks period, Ottoman Empire period and the Turkish Republic era.

Ephesus was not destroyed however since the harbor was filled by alluvial soil, eventually abandoned.

With the Hellenistic period, Ephesus moved to her current location by Alexander the Great’s commander Lysimachus. Ephesus in Bible times was located at the same spot, there is even a Virgin Mary Church on the slope where the 3rd Ecumenical Council took place.

The Ephesian Artemis, the “great mother goddess” also mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 19) The Ionic temple was the first edifice of its size to be created entirely from marble. Pliny the Elder in XXXVI.21 says it took 120 years to build and was situated outside the city walls on marshy land, perhaps to withstand an earthquake, or to withstand the crowds that would attend events