Arte - Artemis The Lost Temple (2023)

The location of the sanctuary of Artemis at Amarynthos has long remained one of the great archaeological enigmas of Greece. This vast “Artemision” is mentioned in several ancient texts, which even go so far as to specify the distance separating the sanctuary from the ancient city of Eretria, located on the western coast of the island of Euboea. However, despite the numerous expeditions carried out at the end of the 19th century, the sanctuary and its temple remained nowhere to be found. In the 1960s, a young Swiss archaeologist, Denis Knoepfler, set out in search of the lost temple of Artemis. His investigations quickly took him into the hinterland of the island of Euboea, well beyond the limits of previous expeditions. But it was only in 2017 that a team of Swiss and Greek archaeologists formally identified the sanctuary of Artemis… exactly where Denis Knoepfler had determined that it was buried. This documentary retraces a collective undertaking spanning more than a century, rich in twists and turns, and details the crucial stages of a long-term investigation that has fascinated several generations of archaeologists. In light of the excavations carried out since 2017 on the site, the story also explores the history of the ancient city of Eretria and plunges into the mystical atmosphere of the cult of Artemis, the powerful goddess of the hunt, protector of the natural world and childbirth.

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