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Tarxien
Date Added: 7th Feb 2024
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 5
Tarxien submitted by enkidu41 on 27th Apr 2004. The celebrated prehistoric temple situated in the capital Valletta.
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Log Text: Impressive as the other major Malta ruins, but this one as a lot of reliefs and carvings/decorations. Sometimes I wonder if the reliefs and decor were done hundreds of years after these structures were made, as they are not found everywhere.
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
Date Added: 7th Feb 2024
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum submitted by Jonzjob on 15th Jun 2015. Hypogium 4
Semi official photo from the 1950s
Image copyright: Jonzjob (John), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: The feeling inside is that of a compressed structure for very short beings - unlike the structures on the surface. The fact that this location and others had essentially mud with mixed bones from various animals and humans is to me indicative that there was a massive flood that caused it. Was this an ancient bunker? The elongated skulls found in it were hidden at the Valletta archeological museum, but some brought out recently for an exhibition. Some of the skulls seem to be permanently hidden.
The chamber that resonates with a specific frequency was very impressive but I wish we had had a demonstration of the sound. Book ahead of time as the number of people inside is limited because of conservation efforts.
Ggantija
Date Added: 7th Feb 2024
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Malta (Gozo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ggantija submitted by enkidu41 on 5th May 2004. Ggantija ("the Goddess's Tower) was built about 5,500 years ago and consists of 2 unconnected temples enclosed by a single outer wall each with a single entrance in a common facade.
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Log Text: Out of the ruined sites in Malta this seems to have the largest stones!
Mnajdra
Date Added: 7th Feb 2024
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Mnajdra submitted by enkidu41 on 27th Apr 2004. A prehistoric temple attractively situated above the cliffs.
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Log Text: Magnificent site not far from Hagar Qim, down on a footpath. These structures that are aligned with the sun and other stars make me wonder if they were made by survivors (Nephilim?) of an ancient catastrophe or flood, trying to rebuild a sense of time and a calendar. That is kind of what we would do if we lost all the technology to track time today.
Hagar Qim
Date Added: 7th Feb 2024
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 5
Hagar Qim submitted by tfar on 3rd Jan 2009. Steel arches erected over Hagar Qim Temple to support the protective bubble that has yet to be installed.
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Log Text: These structures that are aligned with the sun and other stars make me wonder if they were made by survivors (Nephilim?) of an ancient catastrophe or flood, trying to rebuild a sense of time and a calendar. That is kind of what we would do if we lost all the technology to track time today.