Claims from Ancient Apocalypse that Malta’s temples were repeatedly rebuilt to track Sirius are weighed against archaeological dating, excavation evidence, and the known Neolithic history of the ...

Malta’s prehistoric temples may align with stars used by ancient seafarers for navigation, archaeologists have argued in newly published research. These temples—Unesco World Heritage Sites among ...

Mnajdra on Malta’s southern cliffs is one of the oldest surviving temple complexes in the world, built during the island’s ...

Older than Stonehenge or the pyramids, Malta's Neolithic temples still hold many secrets left to uncover. Researchers explore why and how they were built. When people think of ancient structures, they ...

Several 5000-year-old temples in Malta seem to have been oriented towards specific stars, suggesting the temples could have been schools for celestial navigation. Ancient people constructed seven ...

South Temple at Ġgantija, showing the paved pathway and entrance. Courtesy of Mario Mintoff of M. J. Publications Ltd. Ever since I discovered the ground-breaking book The Cognitive Origins of Art, ...

Although forebears of the temple builders on the Maltese islands, the Maltese are probably not their direct descendants, Prof. David H. Trump says in his latest publication "Malta: Prehistory and ...