After sixty years of searching, the site of the temple of Artemis was rediscovered in 1869 by an expedition led by John Turtle Wood and sponsored by the British Museum. These excavations continued until 1874.
A few further fragments of sculpture were found during the 1904–1906 excavations directed by David George Hogarth. The recovered sculptured fragments of the 4th-century rebuilding and a few from the earlier temple, which had been used in the rubble fill for the rebuilding, were assembled and displayed in the “Ephesus Room” of the British Museum.
Today the site of the temple of Artemis in Ephesus, which lies just outside Selcuk, is marked by a single column constructed of dissociated fragments discovered on the site.
Rediscovery of the temple of Artemis,