Megalithic Portal: Latest from Malta

Gozo's Prehistoric Landscape: A Small Island With an Outsized Past

Andy_B — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:58:02 GMT

]]>There's a moment, standing at Ġgantija in the late morning when the other visitors have moved on and the light falls flat across the coralline limestone, when the scale of what you're looking at stops making comfortable sense. These walls are not ruins in the way that word usually implies Something fallen, something diminished. They are still largely there. Still standing. Still massive. And older than almost any other megalithic structure our species ever put together.

Xwejni bay megalithic alignment

Odysseus — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:44:21 GMT

]]>This alignment consists of three heavily weathered hard limestone blocks. They all contain and display significant crystaline layers of quartz. They are distinctly different from the other large rocks in the bay.

Marsalforn alignment

Odysseus — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:01:04 GMT

]]>Located next to the Marsalforn carpark, close to the public toilet next to the valley creek. This megalithic row sits under an oliander tree, the smallest of the three blocks is mostly concealed by a caper bush. There is a bench directly infront of the stones, which is a great place to sit down, have a cup of tea and eat a sandwich.

Santa Verna

enkidu41 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:55:19 GMT

]]>New International Petition to Protect Santa Verna Temple Landscape in Xagħra, Gozo from development - please share and sign. #StandingStoneSunday Despite a robust campaign and a successful parliamentary petition in Malta which garnered 1,422 local signatures, the threat to this irreplaceable cultural heritage persists. This ruined temple probably rivalled the major sites of Ggantija, Tarxien and Hagar Qim in importance. It was first excavated in 1911 when all that was found were the surviving group of 3 uprights, the tallest being over 2.1m (7ft) high, along with 3 horizontal blocks lining the eastern side of the uprights and a beaten earth floor. From this it was possible to make out a typical trefoil or 3-apse temple design.

Ta' Raddiena

Mona — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:33:41 GMT

]]>A ruinous temple right by the Birkirkara bypass road in Malta. The remains were discovered when by-pass was being built. No excavation has been carried out but sherds lying around confirmed the antiquity of the structure.

Citadel of Gozo

CoppellaiaMatta — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:45:37 GMT

Ancient Village or Settlement in Gozo

Ta’ Ħaġrat

Izozo — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:24:30 GMT

]]>Megalithic Structures/Temple Complex in Mainland

Borġ In-Nadur-2

Izozo — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:32:11 GMT

Not Known (by us) in Mainland

Borg in-Nadur Temple

KaiHofmann — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:16:41 GMT

]]> A ruinous four-apsed temple opening from an oval forecourt, measuring 22 metres by 15 metres, with a bedrock floor. Uniquely, the whole was enclosed by a megalithic wall which has survived in better condition than the rest of the site.

Wardija Nymphaeum

KaiHofmann — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:56:41 GMT

]]>Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Gozo

Ta’ Ċenċ Dolmen III

KaiHofmann — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:46:39 GMT

]]>Burial Chamber or Dolmen

Ta’ Ċenċ Cart Ruts II

KaiHofmann — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:27:59 GMT

]]>Ancient Trackway in Gozo

Fomm Ir-Rih Cart Ruts

KaiHofmann — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:52:10 GMT

What appear to be ancient cart ruts on a large rock slab at the sea shore west of Mgarr.

Il-Pellegrin

KaiHofmann — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:25:40 GMT

Ancient Temple in Mainland

Ghar il-Kbir Shaft Tomb III

KaiHofmann — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 17:25:47 GMT

]]>Rock Cut Tomb in Mainland