Ruins of the Temple of Artemis at Sardis. It was the fourth largest Ionic temple in the ancient world. Sardis, an ancient city at the location of modern in Turkey's Manisa Province, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia and one of the Seven churches of Asia in the Book of Revelation. Construction began around 334 BC, soon after Alexander the Great liberated Sardis from the Persians. The temple was renovated under the Romans in the 2nd century AD.135 film (36×24 mm