This month, one of the world’s best preserved prehistoric sites — a 6,000-year-old underground burial chamber on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta — reopened to the public. Last June, Hal ...

First things first: If you can't find Malta on a map and don't know what a hypogeum is, don't fret. Malta's a nation made up of three islands in the southern Mediterranean, and a hypogeum is an ...

When one of his colleagues blew on a horn inside the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, an ancient, underground burial complex on the Mediterranean island of Malta, archaeologist Fernando Coimbra felt the sound ...

The area in front of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum entrance in Paola has been inaugurated as a pedestrian zone, upon completion of a project which saw the paving of the street, the implementation of other ...

Elongated skulls discovered in 1926 by Temi Zammit at the Ħal Saflieni hypogeum have long been the source of multiple conspiracy theories. Described by Zammit as being “of the long variety ...

The prehistoric inhabitants of Malta may not have had drugs but, according to research conducted by the Clinical Neurophysiology Unit at the University of Trieste, the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum in Paola ...

In collaboration with the National Archives of Malta and their Memorja project, Heritage Malta is announcing a new initiative to document the recent history and personal connections of the community ...

Step back in time with our expert guide to Malta’s fascinating heritage sites and experiences (VisitMalta) From the ancient megalithic temples, which predate the pyramids of Egypt and Stonehenge in ...

An international team of scientists is to come to Malta to study the hypogeum of Hal Saflieni, which is believed to be the oldest prehistoric underground temple in the world. The focus of their ...