The Phoenicians occupied the coast of the Levant for over 1,000 years, but knowledge of their trade network and practices remains elusive.…
From Malta, we now travel to its sister-island Gozo, where Nadia Durrani encountered two new major restoration projects. In Maltese, Gozo is known…
Queen Elizabeth, on a recent visit to Malta, offered the comment that the island appeared to be overbuilt. Indeed, it is.…
The dig The Hypogeum Ħal-Saflieni was discovered in 1902 when builders, working on a new housing development, fell through its roof. The huge underground structure…
For nearly 5,000 years, the sanctuary site at Tas-Silġ lured worshippers to its idyllic island setting overlooking the blue waters of the…
Temple trivia from around the world.…
First settled in the late 6th millennium BC, between 3600-2500 BC the Maltese archipelago flourished into an astonishingly rich prehistoric culture, producing…
Just outside the fortified walls of Mdina, once the capital of Malta, are the remains of a fine example of a Roman…
Half a dozen of us stood or crouched in the faint dawn light on either side of the great stone doorway, just…
A long-neglected archaeological landscape will now be preserved after being declared a Class A Area of Archaeological Importance by the Malta Environment…
How radiocarbon dating revolutionised our concept of social evolution.…
The Brochtorff Stone Circle at Xaghra on the island of Gozo reveals an amazing underground burial complex…