The Temple of Artemis, also known as Temple of Diana, was dedicated to the goddess of fertility, Artemis. She is also the goddess of night, fruitfulness, childbirth, beasts, bull and is supposed to be an eternal virgin. The temple was completed around 550 BC at Ephesus under the Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian Empire. It is located on the west coast of modern Turkey, south of the Selcuk county and about 50 kilometres south of Smyrna. The place was called as Ephesus during ancient times. It got its rightful recognition as one of the seven wonders of the world.