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Site Type | Country (A/D) |
County/ Region | Visited? (A/D) |
Date (A/D) |
Cond | Amb | Acc | Comments | Trip Number (A/D) |
Trip Order |
| Tarxien | Ancient Temple | Malta | Mainland | Visited | 1st Jan 2024 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 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 | Ancient Temple | Malta | Mainland | Visited | 1st Jan 2024 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 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 a... Read More |
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| Ggantija | Ancient Temple | Malta | Gozo | Visited | 1st Jan 2024 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Out of the ruined sites in Malta this seems to have the largest stones! | ||
| Mnajdra | Ancient Temple | Malta | Mainland | Visited | 1st Jan 2024 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 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... Read More |
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| Hagar Qim | Ancient Temple | Malta | Mainland | Visited | 1st Jan 2024 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 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. |