The Lost MEGALITHIC Sites Of MALTA
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- Malta's megalithic temples are some of the most impressive buildings in the Neolithic world. Although aspects of them are reminiscent of megalithic structures in other parts of Europe, their overall form and style was unique to Malta, as was the art created by the temple people. The Maltese islands cover just a few hundred square metres, and yet, evidence points to the temple people having built upwards of fifty megalithic structures. Why would the Neolithic farming communities on the island need so many ritual centres?
In this video I explore the major, minor and lost megalithic sites of Malta to build a comprehensive picture of the entire built landscape during the Neolithic. I also discuss why the temple people may have needed so many megalithic buildings in such a small area, why their culture appears to have come from nowhere and why their art and architecture has no parallels outside of the islands.
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Ashby, T., R.N. Bradley, T.E. Peet & N. Tagliaferro. (1913). Excavations in 1908-11 in various megalithic buildings in Malta and Gozo. Papers of the British School at Rome 6 (1), 1-126.
Ashby, T. and Zammit, T. (1916). 1. Excavations in Malta in 1914. Man, 16, pp.1-6.
Bonanno, A. (2008). Insularity and isolation: Malta and Sicily in prehistory. In A. Bonanno, & P. Militello (Eds.), Malta in the Hybleans, the Hybleans in Malta pp. 27-37. Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali.
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I think the answer is the same as why there are so many on the island of Anglesey, in Wales - there are lots of layers of different types of rock (common on islands) - and thereby, fault lines. They usually are built on fault lines, of which there are plenty on Malta due to the varying types of rock.
As a local this was such a wonderful video to watch!
Thank you, I visited Malta around 20 years ago and was amazed just seeing some of the main sites and seeing the cart ruts was enough to realise what industrious people they were but your knowledge brings it to another level, what ever they were doing must have been incredibly important to the builders, no small undertaking.
Although I never been in Malta it is definitely a special island with the highest concentration of Megalithic sites in the Mediterranean. I wounder what it made it so attractive for those people then. I would have preferred Sicily for example as it was far more green and cultivated. Plutarch once said “De gustibus non est disputandum”....
Yes it’s rather an intriguing mystery that the early farmers moved there from Sicily.
You should off tours of Malta! But seriously, the I read this article and could never find it again is PURE ACADEMIA!
Excellent information! I’m curious about this sinkhole cave now!!!
it's nice. steps super slippery in the rain. but then a gate stops you from going down further...and thank the stars for that... the locals will make a mess of the area... (i am a local)
Haha yes I've never attempted to go down those steps because they look very slippery. It's a lovely little protected habitat which is great.
If only there was a way to peer back in time and see these places when they were originally used and occupied.
I feel this comment SO much!
There is...I will try to explain in a non scientific easy way...
If you travel very far in the universe you can reach the lights emanated by earth millions of years ago. With good telescopes (not yet invented) you could see what was going on on Earth at that time. Something like that!
I didn't think about that! Good point. So, basically we need a phenomenally fast spaceship and a brilliant telescope.
@@AP-iy9ho I thought about that when I was a kid, but you would need to travel faster, much faster, than light and not get ripped apart by cosmic dust and micrometeors in the process. If you wanted to peer back 4,000 years, you would need to go more than 4,000 lightyears away at a speed that would get you there within your lifetime, carrying a massive telescope with you. Interesting idea, great for science fiction, but physically impossible.
@@MegalithHunter heard it from some scientist :)
Super excellent,really.This is the first video i watched and I have subscribed to watch all others. The details of this video are astonishing and you deserve a gold medal,many views,lots of likes and everyones subsriptions.A big hug and a thank you. It also proves how important CZcams has become to the world.I am going to highly recommend you. You made my day, as I closely follow this subject in Malta from many different aspects.Brava.
Thank you so much 🙂
Thank you for another great researched and informative piece. Ps. That pot-plant in the background was making faces while you were talking. I'd watch that one if I were you. 🤨
So my suggestion is the monuments on Malta represent a vanished temple precinct of a now vanished larger settlement which was located around these islands and was inundated by the sea, presenting a picture similar to that as if the city of Athens, for instance, was inundated leaving only the acropolis. But the areas of these Maltese acropolises is much larger and certainly much richer than the Athenian acropolis. These islands themselves couldn't support a large population required by all of these monuments. Just hauling the stones would expend more protein than the islands could provide. When the area around the islands, the Maltese plateau, was inundated, perhaps thousands of people were forced to leave the region. Then of course a perhaps much smaller population adjusted themselves to life on these mountains-turned- into- stony- islands, explaining the primitive dwellings found in proximity to these monuments. I think that the close presence of pottery workshops can be telling, suggesting that there might have been establishments offering pottery for use in rituals or offerings by pilgrims. And like the acropolis there was no master plan for the structures, each temple following on the other over a very long period of time. The presence of so many structures in such a small area suggests that this was a temple district starting in Neolithic times, a state apparently carried into Roman times, which is startling. I think that the early temples represented fertility worship. And I think that the presence of carved stone trackways extending over the islands represented the actual transportation network for the district.
So the answer lies offshore under the waves on the Malta plateau, where indeed underwater ruins have been found. Indeed nothing significant may be found. But that is where many answers lie. The inundation of the area is a fact, and it has to be a fact that this happened maybe starting in 12,000 BP making this catastrophe front and center part of the history of the area. There may be a virtual city in the waters surrounding the island. RE Unique culture: looks to me like the Maltese temples and possible supporting but now vanished settlement could have been a major religious center in the Mediterranean region for millennia, one so prominent that it created its own unique society and culture. SZ BA MA Art History and Architecture.
Great job covering all of these sites.
Thank you!
They must have been really industrious people! It would be highly interesting to learn more about their economy.
It certainly appears so Bill!
Thank you Laura, for another fascinating look at Malta and it’s megaliths. I hadn’t realized just how many structures still exist there.
Thanks Jim!
Absolutely fascinating. More Maltese content please :-)
On it!
I'd like to see a video on Gigantija. I visited it a couple of years ago and was amazed at the construction, with only basic tools and no mortar at all. The rocks of widely varying size are simply stacked, with a technique known as "corbeling" used to form the roofs, now mostly gone unfortunately. With the numerous small alcoves it reminds me of the arrangement of some Orthodox churches such as St. Basil's in Moscow, though I realize the purpose of the building is anybody's guess.
There is one. Check my Mediterranean Mysteries playlist.
Thanks for sharing this. I would love to hear your take on the Sirius discussion.
Its very apparent, that a lot of Malta's Megalithic heritage has been destroyed within living memory. What is the attitude of 'ordinary' Maltese people to their tourist industry? Are retired construction workers, happy to talk or is there a code of silence? Are there crusty old mavericks who don't care what the neighbours think and will talk anyone under the table?
The largest X patriot Maltese community lives in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and they have a sizeable online presence. X patriot’s tend to treasure memories of the old country. Surely there as old people who saw what happened when they were kids.
Also war time aerial surveys? War time correspondence concerning the preservation of historical structures wherever possible. When military installations and operations were planned, preserving historic monuments was occasionally given consideration.
There are many links between military engineering and the antiquarian movement. It all depends on what survived the war. British Bomber command used Stone Henge as a practice target for high altitude night bombing: the bombadears took strobe photos instead of dropping actual bombs.
Just a few thoughts...
Thanks for putting in all this work for us - it's a topic I never dug into, but I may have to start reading up now. Would a drone help find your hidden sites on private or inaccessible land, or would a land-owner shoot it out of the sky? I always wonder how much effort went into these sites. We forget - or don't realize - that for farmers and pastoralists, work is seasonal,, and there are times when there's just nothing to do but watch the crops grow - or the animals eat. So plenty of time for communal projects.
great point, Jon! and, back then, farmers didn't have our modern entertainment. so, yeah, lots of time for those projects. got me thinking, now.......
Good point Jon. With seasonal work they would have had some time. Well, with drones it's hard to know where to start. When old texts mention stones in fields, there's no GPS reference obviously so would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Also, yeah they might shoot em! Haha
Here is a thought: Imagine if we were wiped out by a major catastrophe and most people perished. What would the survivors try to do first? Maybe the temples in Malta were made by survivors trying to rebuild a sense of time and a calendar (for agriculture, etc). We rely on the sun, moon, and time for literally everything we do, particularly agriculture. There is evidence of a major flood having deposited tons of mixed bones and earth into caves and the hypogeum. Clearly something major happened to cause that. Malta was possibly not even an island back then with the land bridges, which imply that there is a lot more to be found below the waters of the Mediterranean sea. Ancient myths not only talk about major floods, but also mention the existence of giants and other beings. While visiting Malta I couldn't stop thinking about the possibility of different beings coexisting before a major catastrophe hit. Maybe there were not just homosapiens, but also other humanoids (maybe taller or even smaller in stature). The artifacts found at the museums and the sites seem to indicate that variety in scale. I am a firm believer that the earth goes through pole shifts that cause major upheavals on the earth's tectonic plates and volcanoes, causing massive tsunamis and devastation.
Excellent job. You really toiled on this one. Several interesting questions. What was the soil like in Malta many years ago? When did the massive erosion that is obvious occur? How many people actually lived there?
If you had not told me those were all “temples”, my militaristic little mind would call them breast works. Forts are typically defensive points of a multi-directional nature. Brest works are typically a line of defense thrown up across some natural feature of the terrain. They can be hasty or quite substantial. The easiest example to visualize is the Gettysburg battlefield here in America. This is farm country with the typical stone walls along the field edges. Then there are the breast works erected in less than a week, largely by the Union forces. They block defilades and follow the military crest of several ridges. The site called the “devils den” could have been on Malta. A large depression full of boulders and broken rock, both Union and confederate built hasty breast works among the rocks as some of the most viscous fighting occurred. In overview the devils den was an eroded gully giving access between Big Round Top and Little Round Top, the two hills that constituted the high ground for the entire week long battle.
In some of your pictures, those isolated sections of wall, some quite substantial and some hasty, speak of some blocking force trying to stop or delay a larger body on the advance. Not forts per se, but Brest works in strategic features. Such items are used to this day. They function just as well with Stone Age spears or modern assault rifles. Or anything in between.
So are they? I don’t know. But when I saw your pictures that’s what popped to mind. A place to hold your ground against the outrageous slings and arrows of misfortune, whilst skulking about in the rocks.
I could also be an old hammer seeing nails all about.
Fox out
Mr Fox you beat me to it again. I came to ask about topsoil too, though I did plan to corrupt my brain with a brief google search first. I'm guessing all the geology about Malta's limestone is well documented. I'm finding more and more my limited youtube study through Geo Girl on all things bio, geo and chemistry with a dash of NASA thrown in has become seriously useful in terms of being able to ask better questions.
Now I don't pretend I know all about limestone but I think a little study would reveal much fast enough.
From a spring house clean to weeding and planting, geology will have to wait til the day isn't sunny and bright.
Maybe Laura already knows the answers as per usual. Lol
I'm always too quick to discount worship in favour of food, and defences/war. For worship/temples to occur, wealth and idle time had to have been abundant enough that survival was not in imminent danger. They would have to have been in peace time, with no wars, food would need to be plentiful enough that survival on a daily basis was reasonably assured.
No natural disasters, civil unrest or disease/pandemics or plagues. Alllll of those factors would need to align for there to be money, time and brain space to mess around building temples.
I'm more willing to believe farms and forts before fun.
Idk, assuming all of us are wrong, what other possibilities haven't we thought of?
hiya, Fox! yup, i can see the breast-work angle but, who, or what, were they defending against? are there any indications of major conflict at that time and place? i don't think the Roman Empire was an entity in the Neolithic. nor the Carthaginians nor any sea-faring culture, that i know of. but then, i probably DON'T know. the walls which have megalithic stones at the bottom and smaller stones above, yes, they easily could be defensive structures, built on top of or, at least, using the megaliths. i believe Laura said some of those could be Punic or Roman era.
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@@KerriEverlasting ah yes, Kerri! leave it to you to be more pragmatic about the whole thing. i do tend to agree, at least about the importance of food production. however, some folks worry more about the spiritual than the physical well-being. personally, if i'm hungry, i'm going to work to feed my hunger and let my spirit fend for itself. just sayin'
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Not to worry. There are so many questions we can all be-devil Laura with our questions.
Here is the drill on sink holes. A few are in igneous rock and are actually lava tubes dating back to when the lava flowed. Those in Hawaii for example. Thin spots develop in the tube. Then somebody drives over the lava flow and the car breaks through. I almost did that once in Hawaii.
But most of the sinkholes you see on CZcams are in limestone. Big or small they are caused by water seeping through the stone, slowly dissolving it. Then boom! The top falls in and you get a great big hole. Or a small one. Sometimes they come under a small lake. Then they will suck the entire lake into them.
As we determined in the cart rut video Malta has a lot of limestone bedrock. Thus one might expect sink holes.
Now top soil builds up over time on bedrock. All types of rock. But limestone more so. The lime buffered the pH of normally acidic plant compost. This acidity helps break down the limestone in a reinforcing pattern. Thus you can get some very nice topsoil on limestone bedrock. You lime your garden to make it fertile. Right, country girl?
So. Once you have topsoil the limestone is covered. Then things happen. Geologically, glaciers and water may erode the top soil right down to bedrock. Example the scab lands in eastern Washington by the grand coulee. Or people may farm it away.
Here in Tennessee we have historical records of the forested deep rich soil on the rolling hills from the 1740’s. By 1900 farmers with mules and plows had reduced those rolling hills into valleys full of eroded soil and bare exposed limestone ledges on the hill sides and ridge tops.
Some places to soil is stable. Ireland for example. They have farmed there since before recorded history. The land is still intact with little erosion.
Sicily is another example. There, like Tennessee, they plow rocks. Have been doing so since before recorded history. Most top soil is in a few valleys or out in the ocean.
The agricultural soil conservation types are very good at spotting natural and man made erosion. Just looking at pictures of Malta I’d guess that people have farmer there since time immemorial. And the spots with good soil are sheltered in some way. The general absence of soil and exposed bedrock in other areas points to somebody with a sharp stick stirring it up long ago. When they got some good rains. Because the bare spots now would have been the best spots then to plant. Thus they eroded.
Add all those megaliths and that suggests a big population. Lot of people stacking rocks. Lot of people farming. A nice place. And if you have a nice place then there are other people who want what you have. We know boats have been around for 60,000 years and you could probably triple that and be safe. So it’s conceivable that back when Malta was Eden-like there were people who wanted to come take it. And others who resisted. And so I see spot defensive positions in those lonely stone walls. Think of the us boarder with Mexico. Or the old Berlin Wall. Not forts. Not temples. But walls to keep people in or out…. Actually just slow them down enough you can fight or capture them.
Well that’s my thoughts. I’m always up for discussion!
Fox out.
@@vulpesvulpes5177 yeah, boats have been around for a long time. but, serious naval type attacks? i don't know. maybe. Malta, being an island, would have needed a large assault force to have been conquered. however, knowing the human male, it could be possible. war seems to be one of the few things that have been with us throughout our history. and religion, of some form.
Excellent in a nutshell narrative! 😀
Thank you!
Hope your jaw doesn't hurt too much from trying these names. Well done!
We had a major holiday last week and I was on the go all weekend. Just now catching up. Fantastic information! This gives me a much better idea of the extent and distribution of sites around the islands. I like your theory that sites were both functional and ceremonial in nature. Yes, I would like your thoughts on the book and Ancient Apocalypse. Thank You Laura!
Thanks a lot Barry! Hope you enjoyed the big holiday and had lots of delicious food!
@@MegalithHunter Oh Yes! Thanks!
The roman road at st pauls bay is a mustwalk too. Ancient beehives, roman beehives, ancient perfectly shaped caves etc etc. I walked around there for almost a whole day but not enough because i didnt see the cartrods😅
I’ve been up there many times. It’s a nice walk. Lots to see.
Gaia the Earth Mother, a fertility goddess in a land that sometimes lacked adequate fertility. To me at least this is a strong theme found throughout the island. YMMV.
Very interesting.
THanks David!
Why so many neolithic "temple" sites in Malta? Possibly, for similar reasons as to why there are so many churches in Malta, today. Every local community wanted to have its place of worship and each was a source of great pride for those living nearby. Small chapels gave way to larger churches; many of which were subsequently enlarged or replaced by newer and larger buildings. Most of these have been local projects undertaken by the community living in a particular area. Just to name two examples which stand out because of their sheer scale: (i) The Mosta Dome built in 1830, using exclusively manual and animal labour and built when Mosta was still a small village. (ii) The Xewkija church, built post WWII in the village of Xewkija, in Gozo. Both of these churches were built around and on top of the pre-existing church; with the old church being demolished when the new one was ready.
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Much appreciated!
Great job on the research.
We have the same style ruins here on Kauai Hawaii, believe it or not. They are mostly destroyed (1819) but many survived.
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Oh wow! Will research them.
@@MegalithHunter here is a small sample. Kalalau valley has 6000 acres of terracing like this. Other valleys have more. What I'm interested in are the massive rounded boulders laying around. Since I made this video I have found so much more and even some with faces carved into them. It's a hidden history of Hawaii. czcams.com/video/c6bxlZ3szNg/video.html
Here is my take. I think they are trade and food storage centres. This doesn't exclude spiritual or ritual events but considering the poor quality of soil any food excess (grown or bred) would have been stored in those buildings that would have been a lot easier to defend or protect from foreign raids or rival tribes. I also think many of them would have been timber roofed and/or covered in a mound of stones and dirt. I see them as being centres of trade and barter, ceremonial thanksgiving, food preparation (slaughtering and grinding as examples) and manufacturing or processing of products like oil, flour & honey. If they were all purely religious "temples" it would seem lopsided where food would have been very high on the agenda.
they were smuggling stores, for stones (giggles) great show!😁😁😁
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Its much older! Read lenie reedijks book about sirius and the connection between the star and the megalithic temples. Hal saflieni is also an mystery and good to look into!
I’ve read it. I met her too last Feb. I agree the hypothesis is very interesting.
The official age of the temples of Malta and the first high culture with 4000 - 6000 years is unbelievable.
The C14 isotope method could never be unequivocally assigned to the stone.
That these are the official oldest monuments of mankind is since 2000
also no longer credible because of Göbekli Tepe. Archaeoastronomical calculations
at the Mnajdra complex in Malta even suggest that the temples are around 21,000 years old. See also "Das Vermächtnis der Tempel von Malta" by AncientMail Publisher.
I wonder what the sea levels were like at this time and dose this link to the recent findings in Spain
hey, Laura! i knew there were a lot of ancient sites on Malta but, whoa! had no idea of the actuality. now, i'm thinking: really? so many? and, they're ALL temples, supposedly. why? what could possibly have made the people build so many temples? did they have a huge pantheon of gods and each one had to have their own temple? or.......? then, you speculate that the sites possibly represent a progression, of ritualistic and/or worship styles or, perhaps, different deities( the latter is my thought). OR, each temple is a meeting/ritual center for nearby villages. okay, this starts to make more sense. BUT, still, with the rather small distances, to anywhere on the island, it seems like a lot of hard, unnecessary labor. i guess the progression idea might just have the right stuff, in my humble opinion. but then, wouln't they' use some of the megaliths from the earlier temples to build later ones, rather than quarry new ones? curiouser and curiouser🤯
it just seems there are way to many sites for them to all have the same purpose. but then, what do i know? just an old, dilapidated, grey, dinosaur with too much time and not enough brain😱 think i need another drink🍺😂
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Exactly Floyd! So many! I would agree without hesitation but then India. Have you seen that Yuga cycle of 240,000 years or something ridiculously huge along with 58 billion gods with as many arms. Then if you read the tiniest bit of stuff you find out they have loads more descriptions for conscience, consciousness, the universe, gods and astronomical cycles as according to their historical literature.
I wouldn't believe for a moment that they are all temples... except evidence of Exactly that exists today in places like India.
I just finished saying on Fox's post how unlikely it is they are allll temples...
But on reflection. It is actually entirely possible.
Another point for Laura. Thats about 800/0 at this point, in favour of Laura lol
@@KerriEverlasting yes, Kerri, but! you certainly come up with some good points of your own. and, yes, some folks are megaliths of spirituality😁
@@floydriebe4755 maybe there is more worshipping going on than I would have thought...
@@KerriEverlasting ikr kinda boggles the ole synapses, eh? i was raised Presbyterian but, when i grew up and saw all the hypocrisy in so-called Christianity, i went my own way. looked into other religions and, finally, decided that; if one tries to live a life of acceptance of, and consideration for, others and their beliefs and culture, and strives to be a good person, one has done their best. we are, after all, the same, all human beings, of the same flesh. now, that's over, let's have beer🍺🍻🍺
@@floydriebe4755 I don't really get religion either tbh. The closest I came was watching Sabine Hossenfelder spend a 20 minutes physics video proving that God doesn't exist. My unthinking response was... yeah but...
And somehow I knew there must be some kind of God, somehow. Just, yeah but.
Nothing else. She proved her point flawlessly. But I just somehow knew, at 47 years old, yeah but. There's something.
And that there is my entire connection to spiritual stuffs.
My dear Church of England Mummy told me to believe whatever I wanted and duly signed me into ethics instead of religion. She's a good mummy. Lol
Since we know now that Gobekli Tepe in Turkey was built around 12 thousand years ago, possibly by the inhabitants of Atlantis carried East by Meltwater Pulse 1b, should we be wondering if Malta was also the recipient of advanced knowledge ?
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@@MegalithHunter Oh !!! no wonder. Big smile.
Star Tablet faces NE or was that N before the Great flood?
Mmmmmmm! Good question!
I'm not sure about that one!
Hello Laura
Are you going to Mnajdra on the 21st for the Sun rise ?
I'm looking for a ticket.
No. Will be away. I believe they sell the tickets online on the Heritage Malta website.
Agh OK,
Yes I was there today they may have 2 left for the 20th but the system was down.
21st is all sold.
I was hoping you had a spare ticket for sale :))
what would have been the population of Malta, say 15.000 years ago >>?>>?> how many persons would have been required to construct such temples >>>?
What kind of evidence would prove it to be a place of pilgrimage?
Any chance I can have your Google Earth location pins ?
If I could figure out how to share them. Drop me an email: megalithhunting @ gmail
I feel like there is a lot more going on here then some communities building town halls. I also get the the feeling that if lidar was used the entire island would be wall to wall ancient buildings.
After the younger dryas i think we’re safe saying this place got a lot smaller and disconnected from the nearby land mass. Highly likely Malta wasn’t an island at all. Has anybody looked under the sea around Malta?
Also anytime i see true megalithic stones being used and built with my spidey sense tingles. I don’t believe any modern people would build with stones weighing over a ton or two.
There simply isn’t any real proof of it in my opinion. Modern people don’t do it although we could with a lot less effort then they would have needed we don’t.
I also don’t believe that kind of construction would have been a natural go to for primitive people. No modern primitives do it. Why would they the difficulty would be off the charts. So academics saying this was some sort of natural progression found all over the world is total nonsense for me. Besides the complete lack of proof people simply don’t do the hardest thing they can think of every time. To me that seems like a lazy out and doesn’t ring true at all.
I think Malta is a place that’s only a shadow of what it was and what it was is another place in the world where an advanced culture stopped by and radically changed things deep in the past before the younger dryas.
Malta used to be connected to North Africa.
With all those temple sites, Malta sounds like the deep south of the USA, where there is often five or six churches in a town of less than 500. And the Babtists have the most!😂
Just like modern Malta too! There’s more than 350 churches! My village must have at least 20 itself lol
None of these structures were temples. Religion is a modern technique. Divide and conquer baby!