Discoveries at Ephesus: Including the Site and Remains of the Great Temple of Diana - Paperbackby John Turtle Wood (Author) In 1863, the English architect John Turtle Wood (1821 90) resigned from a railway development project in western Turkey to begin his search at Ephesus for the Temple of Artemis, lost from view since the middle ages. In the first part of this well illustrated 1877 publication, Wood describes the city and the initial excavations carried out with support from the British Museum. This survey of various structures concludes