A pedestrian casually walking down Triq ic-Cimiterju in the town of Paola might easily walk right past one of Malta's greatest treasures unawares. The entrance to the Ħ al Saflieni Hypogeum is housed ...

A new €2.49m research study, led by Queen's University Belfast, is to help uncover Malta's prehistoric past. The five year programme will examine the environmental and cultural background of ...

Researchers from Northern Ireland are hoping to unlock the secrets of a prehistoric Mediterranean society and chart the rise and fall of a civilisation. New forensic technology will be used to study ...

Prince George, the 7-year-old future king of the United Kingdom, is having to learn a difficult lesson about what happens when he and other members of the royal family are gifted rare objects that ...

Among the earliest stone architecture in the world, the Neolithic temples and hypogea of Malta testify to a sophisticated island culture. Explored in the early twentieth century, the subterranean ...

The remains of a prehistoric structure have been identified and are being uncovered over one hundred years after they were first investigated in a bid to save them from plummeting into the sea. The ...

For many years we have been claiming that Malta’s prehistoric temples were the world’s oldest free-standing stone architecture. It was necessary to specify ‘free-standing’, as some of Western Europe’s ...

Two bare areas at the Tarxien Prehistoric Complex are to be transformed into a garden and a space for relaxation, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Heritage Malta and The ...

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 ...