The Ancient Temple Nobody Loves
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- No matter what you do, don't go on Google reviews and hyperinflate Bugibba Temple's social value to trick tourists into visiting. I definitely wouldn't giggle about that.
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puntastic
I've said it before but, my body is more like a warehouse than a temple *8 )
INB4 we get a rock version of Old Yeller.
Rare Earth You support rocks.
@@BuildingCenter Thanks I was waiting for that.
We should get Evan a pet rock, he clearly wants one.
we can build a Georgia guidestone esq temple in Evan's house.
Bring _The Rock_ then.
I travel too much. I'd feel so bad leaving it home alone.
Rare Earth Get a second rock to keep them company. But be careful and make sure they don’t breed
@@RareEarthSeries we'll build a true to life scale mock up at the "Rare Earth theme park™"
To all those who will go visit this temple in Malta, Please make sure to not touch it as the stone which is Globigerina Limestone is still frail (even if it is tousand of years old), However, you can admire it as much as you like!!! This historic monument is one of the victims here in Malta of development where the rich developers managed to do what they like with the government. Here this happens too often, mistreatment of our heritage due to heritage ignorance and for money...
The historic value of the Monument was lost when the developer got what he wanted. That's why there is doubt whether its authentic or not, or if its just a pile of rocks...
BDW there are a lot of Maltese who don't even know this temple exists...
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The irony is that the hotel is named after the rock. "Dolmen" means something that looks exactly like that temple
make this top comment so people are aware and dont ruin the temple
Evan is like a tourist crossed with a friendly puppy. "I never saw this thing before, I love it completely." And I mean this in the best way possible, eh.
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He should lift a leg and pee on the temple.
I have a friend who lives in an apartment building in Zadar, Croatia; in the back of the building, there's a courtyard; in the courtyard are a few dozen Roman-looking pillars and some statues. In fact, the back courtyard is what's left of a temple of Jupiter from the 4th century BC.
It's currently the seating area for a pizza outlet.
Where exactly? I'm interested to see if i can find it on google maps.
He's feeling sorry about a rock again, let's make this the top tourist attraction in Malta
That would be something xD
yeah i have a feeling that in about a year it'll be the hottest attraction on Malta
The description literally says NOT to do that.
Avery the Cuban-American HEEY
Go for it
38 mins and the temple reviews are from 3,5 up to 4,1 i just love all of you
25 Minutes later and it slowing down, we re up to 4.3
Look at him liking this when he told us not to do it in the discription.
I love a good troll.
checking progress: 4.5. 106 reviews
"Yeah, it's not as impressive as some other megaliths around, but that doesn't make it any less important!"
4.7 181
Dwayne Johnson called, he said he's very grateful for the support on his depressed uncle
10/10 comment
I see The Resistance, I like comment
I would have thought it to be at least a great great great grand uncle...
No? Ok maybe not.. sorry
B. Franco Lol 😂
Well shit, now we need to heat up part of the temple site and fry an egg on it.
"CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN'?!?"
“If your body were a temple which one would you be” damn that got me
Personally, I'd want to be surrounded by college kids. At least at first.
Ur body is a temple🙏
Time to give this bad boy 5 stars. *Cracks knuckles*
Buġibba temple
35°57'17.0"N 14°25'05., Triq Il-Papa Gwanni Pawlu II, St Paul's Bay, Malta
maps.app.goo.gl/6s4Vv3MFj1KXVBHq5
No way, you actually linked it, I was gonna ignore this, but now
5 STARS
I'm disappointed that this isn't pinned to the top.
I also commented the link only a hour later.
I love how the Canadian really comes through when you say sorry.
Yeah I was like... Wow didn't know he was Canadian.
Saury
Sowry
In my experience the way a CZcamsr says sorry is the primary way to out find if they're Canadian.
@@DJBassBoomBottom right on bud
Clickbait about stuff none of us have ever heard of... It's why I love this series.
Malta is pretty interesting that the small island has been depopulated several times in its history. The Maltese today are thus not the same people who built the Ggantija or Bugibba Temple, but have most of their oirigins from Sicilians that arrived in the 11th century. Makes you think about the vulnerability of small islands and even our society as a whole.
Somehow it feels like a condensed version of preserving something while simultaneously not giving a crap about it.
I visited this place back in mid-August, Malta has some of the best megalithic sites in the Mediterranean. Just across St Paul's bay from Buggiba you can see Xemxija Hill, which has had people living up there since the Bronze Age - making it among one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in Europe, if not Earth.
Btw, bugibba is pronounced with a j, not a g
Also sorry is pronounced “Saw-ree” not “Sore ree”
@@thecodemachine depends on the accent from where you're from. Both are acceptable
@@thezipcreator I'm fairly sure he meant it as a joke on the Canadian accent.
Pronounced as j as Maltese has a g and g with a dot which sounds closer to j than to g when compared to English
Hahaha thank you for telling him
"The Spinal Tap version of Maltese megaliths" It's already on Bugibba Temple's Wikipedia page with Rare Earth cited as the source, lmao!
Just checked the wiki. I think it's been removed
We have a temple on our town which no one bothered to excervate properly and is covered in modern paving slabs to show the rough outline of it. Its nestled in the middle of an industrial site and no one really knows it's there.
Coordinates?
What country
www.theharlowexperience.co.uk/the-harlow-temple-site
It's in the UK, I'll have a look for the coordinates. I've heard that a local group tried to excervate it in the 80's but every week horse riders would come and fill it in as it was on a bridal path, and people just gave up 🤷
51.789910,0.126640
Went into this with the mindset of not letting you make me feel bad for the rocks, but I feel bad for the rocks
From a friend on Facebook"This is how to pronounce Bugibba, (sounds like Bujibba). Also the hotel is an eyesore to the landscape of Malta! "
If you want a disrespected historic site, go to Dublin.
They built an office complex over the largest deposit of viking buildings and artefacts ever found outside of Scandinavia.
The only thing marking it? Some brick outlines and bronze casts of some objects in the sidewalk.
At least that temple is there lol
built a shopping centre over the ruins of a viking church and houses down the road in the so-called oldest city.
The Bugibba temple is not actually a temple, and it is not as old as the other stone age temples on Malta. The Bugibba temple is known to historians as a Dolmen, it is a Bronze age burial site, they where built ceremoniously and generally faced west towards the sunset. There are more examples like this one on Malta and Gozo, most of them more unknown or in a more derelict state. Another monument one may find on Malta from the same period are large vertically erect megaliths known as Menhir, they are also found in various locations around both islands.
Like what is found in Triq il-Fortizza, Mosta
you havent seen how many greek arcaeological areas are abandoned and underappreciated
Phenomenal video as always, it's nice to have a CZcams channel that I can actually recommend to people
Dude your content is gold. I find out your channel after "country the world say doesnt exist" till this day i try to watch all of your content. Keep up the good work
Speaking of ancient megaliths going unnoticed: 3:46 , 4th floor, 4th room from the left.
It looks like Evan in that room!
- reminds me of the fabulous time travel movie _Primer_ by Shane Carruth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)
Already up to 4.6 stars and over 120 reviews! Keep it going guys.
Thanks so much for the intro into this overlooked temple! Find some of the most interesting things at home the same way - I mean a Korean Pavilion in the middle of a small city park in San Antonio (Denman Estate)? Who knew? Hope you'll keep looking for the overlooked as you travel!
I know exactly what rock you're talking about in Easter Island, the thing is, if someone doesn't tell us the story, then it's just another rock.
I've watched every video you've produced, and still every video you upload gives me pause for thought. Thank you for your endeavors.
Thank you! I've been saying this for years! Our school graduation takes place annually at this hotel and every time I go I pause by the temple and shake my head in disbelief.
Love this 🤩 I’m staying at this mid range hotel as a base and actually stood and appreciated these stones today, nobody else did!
I used to work in that hotel for years and passed by those stones everyday. So happy someone is finally giving them the attention they deserve.
It’s somewhat common in Europe. So many ancient sites. Many are on private property, so if it’s businesses they try to valorise it for their customers, with more or less success. Or they’re just for the owner’s enjoyment and not/rarely open to the public.
In some places it’s illegal to build without making an archeological dig first.
we pushed it to 4.8 in about 20h
good job. awesome community.
Thank you Evan.
one time I got lost in malta and found a tiny town dedicated to animals
Welcome to Bethlehem .. my backyard hehe
I went to see some Ancient Basilica ruins in Tarragona, the brochure indicated it was in a park. After 30 minutes of wandering, I finally noticed the large mall I’d been circling *was* the park. I went inside and asked after the ruins, and no one knew what I meant. The third security guard pointed me to the parking garage below the building. In a corner of the parking garage, sectioned off by a fence that didn’t keep out the Spanish hip-hop the speakers were blasting, was the ruins of two third-century funerary basilicas. People had worshipped there, mourned there, died there. People were still buried there. And 1700 years later, there it was, foundations and bones, in the corner of a dark Spanish parking garage. Maybe a handful of the glitzy youths shopping above knew it was there. Maybe I was the only one who cared. But I went and I remembered them, and made that one of my most memorable experiences in Spain
Great information, proper life lessons, and unique humor. As always i love your videos.
Now this was the kind of video I expected from you on Malta's ancient temples
I like that you showed the name of the hotel -- Dolmen Resort. It makes the fact that Bugibba is ignored a little more comical.
Another amazing video! I'm not sure if you take suggestions, but I've got an amazing one from Mexico. Hell, doesn't even need to be a video - you should just see it when you are able to appreciate it. In Cuernavaca there is a Franciscan Church, built in the early 1600's. In 1950, restoration of the walls revealed murals that had been painted over, depicting the Franciscan missions to Japan and their eventual fate - being crucified at the orders of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The murals are eerily beautiful, capturing this event within 20 years of it happening. And the contrast of them being painted in Mexico - a place successfully conquered and colonized by Spain - depicting events of a place that despite their intentions, would not be conquered, creates a beautiful window of west meets east meets west. Definitely worth a trip if you are in the area (it's close to Mexico City).
This is easily one of the best channels on YT.
It reminds me of how hotels are built around archaeological sites in Hawai'i too.
I've walked past it on my way to the aquarium :(
Before that I've visited tourist info center - it's 500 meters from that temple and yet they did not mention it.
I feel both ashamed and sorry for these rocks :(
'The tourists gaze' by Urry is a great anthropological text about how tourist destinations are constructed and consumed. Why certain points of interest are must see and how others are forgotten and neglected
In Malta we have a variety of structures which are sometimes referred as temples which are based on more than one time period. The biggest structures Hagar Qim, Ggantija, Hypogeum and Tarxien temples were built roughly between 3600-2600 years during the Megalithic era with Tarxien temples apparently being the last of this kind. After this period of time it appears the inhabitants of the islands disappeared and were replaced by a new civilization in the Bronze age era. If I remember correctly this is a Bronze age structure somewhat similar to a burial ground.
I really enjoy your videos! You very much remind me of Rick Steve's Travels of Europe, I always watched him as a kid on PBS. Safe Travels!~
Man, that is a great video!
Good point !
This little temple reminded me of the scene in Orson Wells' "Time Machine" when the machine stands unchanged and everything around it crumbles into dust. This structure has seen a lot of us and our morbus edificandi in it's time and will probably be around to see the third class hotel in the background pulled down sooner or later.
No need to feel sorry for it, ancient timeless things seem to have a way of looking after themselves, a knack you develop after being around for several millenia.
Alright then, time to lift some rocks.
Well guys, we did it. We boosted the rating of the Temple and got a laugh out of it at the same time.
it really says something that you can't look at the temple from google street view but you can look at the hotel casino
i'm glad to see someone else paying it some nice notice!
Great closing question. 👍👍
I like the sentiments there. Thank you!
Always watch this on my break at work and low key got me thinking
Thank You for Your Video.
Like your comments in this video.
Entertaining.
Informative.
Believable.
This temple reminds me of the Shellmounds of Emeryville, California. The first Man made structures in the area, 3,000 years old, now bulldozed for a mall... Except one remains. Most don't realize the fountain at one of the mall entrances is the last remaining shellmound. Hollowed out, and desecrated like the land which surrounds it
Dudes way effing good! That end bit. My hats off to ya...again
Man, I've been living 4 streets away from the temple for 6 months and I didn't know about it!
"A couple of inanimate rocks piled on top of each other" are some of my favorite places to visit and usually less crowded.
- where are the animate rocks?
(The FF's Ben Grimm and Korg in _Thor Ragnarok_ aside)
There’s a lesson here about impermanence. The takeaway, to me anyway, is that our own temples and Great Works will some day be rock gardens behind someone else’s swimming pools.
Loved the last line!
TbH, 'd prefer Bugibba Temple over the touristy attraction ones. Well, when there's no drunkards in the pool.
For me personally I disagree, all the temples deserve all the respects in the world but think about it, would you rather see Pyramid of Giza or some small Egyptian rock with a little hieroglyphics written on it?
It is good to appreciate history but personally, changing opinions to have sympathy over something when if you wouldn't have watched this video you wouldn't have had the same opinion is just a little dumbfounded for me. But anyways I didn't mean to offend anyone nor the rock, sincerely, appreciate for you reading my dumb comments.
@@taidordz Yes, this is an artificial bump in visibility that will probably fade quickly. The Pyramid of Giza is not likely to suffer in comparison to this monument. There are probably still things to learn about this one, too.
💚 little Bugibba temple and the Rare Earth team!!! Also, sounds like there's some good "making of" footage....some of us read between the lines! 😁🌎😸
I actually stayed here about 15 years ago. Didn’t think much of it when I was 8 but this is wild to see
Ran into this kind of thing a couple times with hotels in Mexico, in the Yucatan. Old Mayan ruins just sort of adjacent to some palapas as a neat little attraction. Somehow there was never graffiti or trash on them which I guess ended up like a good thing?
"A little bit of the Bugibba."
-Chris Jericho
its beautiful, thanks for sharing, now i wanna go party at that pool and then take a look at the temple, sounds nice
Shading me to make me feel sorry for a rock, that's the quality content I come to this channel for.
The other temple he talks about, can you walk up and touch it? There is great value in being able to get that close to something that old.
Yes
@@RareEarthSeries dissolving a microscopic quantity of temple and carrying it away in my hand juices magnifies its value tenfold imo
Touching it will destroy it.
@@RandomTomatoSoup I meant you could get close enough to touch it. I'm not recommending touching it. Please never touch archaeology.
Fair point, and breathing can also damage it, but being able to get that close was what I was going for. But you all are right, don't touch the history.
If our bodies were temples... Bugibba would be a grand upgrade. Thanks for being one of the most fascinating, humbling channels on UTube.
As a Maltese I know about that temple. It makes part of Dolmen Hotel and that is why the hotel is called Dolmen.
Thank you
"No matter what you do, don't go on Google reviews and hyperinflate Bugibba Temple's social value to trick tourists into visiting."
You're not my dad! You don't tell me what to do! That's exactly what I'm going to do!
Excellent video. You are 100 percent correct. I'm really shocked by how many on the feed here don't get it. You go where you are told and you pay money to do it. The places don't care about history they care about money. You are just saying it nicely..
Its pronounced bu-jiba. Its a g with a dot in Bugiba which is pronounced like a j. Btw I am Maltese and i had no idea about this temple. I always glazed over the fact the name of the hotel refers to the horizontal stones of these temples. Thanks for educating me about my own country rare earth.
As in Buttigieg? If nothing else, his candidacy is making the USA a little more aware of Malta and Maltese name pronunciation.
@@acninee yes the g in Buttigieg and Bugibba are pronounced the same.
I am Maltese and no Maltese people talks about it. I really feel sad because it feels like a monument which won’t be there forever and is left out
Thank you for your video on some of our obscure relics! Sadly, this temple is pretty much unheard of in the country and a good portion of our heritage is being largely ignored, left to rot and even destroyed to make way for outrageous developments, so that wealthy and greedy developers can further batten their pockets. And, worst of all, all the relevant authorities simply allow it.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, I think I saw a Maltese rock-centaury growing amongst the rocks--that's the national plant of Malta!
Time to go give it 5 stars
4:35 smooth burn
It looks like a simple garden folley of the kind you might see someone put in to make a water feature look more interesting. Thanks for drawing attention to it.
Well that was adorable. Thanks, Evan!
Canada does this as well. The battlefield sites of the Northwest rebellion are just overgrown fields.
The modern American equivalent of Derek Smalls applauds you. Well Done!!
Welp, guess I’m going to Buggiba to leave a 5 Star review on a rock. Thanks Evan🌞
I was in Malta this summer visiting my family and I had no idea about this temple at all...
The Architect had a great opportunity to create a masterpiece by matching the Hotel to the Temple ruins.
It looks like a forgotten hotel sculpture that once had a dried up fountain running through it.
"Couple of rocks piled onto each other" that have remained in place for 5000 years. So... go to Malta I guess?
As much as I loved Malta I think this place displays one of the problems with the fact that there's just too much expansion
It really has been disrespected. Not only did they build a hotel around it, which makes it seem fake and takes you out of the moment. They don't really market it, talk about it, give you any real in depth information about its history. They also don't give it any security, so tourist can disrespected. Did you know that the coolest things they found at the original dig site back in the 1920's were two big carved stone blocks that they then took away to Valletta to put in a museum. I find that to be both good and bad. Good because they are better protected and have more visibility to others. Bad because they belong to Bugibba. Also maybe they would have helped add more legitimacy to the site and draw more people. At least this is what I thought when I (sad to say) stayed at the Dolmen. I spent a lot of time during at the temple, drawing and reading.😊 I really loved the vibe I got from the place. Great video by the way. Keep them coming.
I think it would be good if Evan had told us more about this heap of rocks!
How is it possible to NOT love Buggiba Temple, and Rare Earth? Thanks, Evan!
Have to admit, it looks like a decoration in a rock garden. It looks like it was built when they installed the landscaping.
"or, someday we might bulldoze it so they can extend the jacuzzi... honestly, i don't know"
fucking rolling
Bugibba, Malta's most underrated and most underappreciated temple.
Love how you ended that
I find it really telling how they built the hotel around the historical site instead of just next to it. It's like the developers did it to make the conservationists angry, because the developers themselves were angry that they couldn't erase the site.