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  The Ġgantija Temples

  How did a Stone Age farming population, with no metal tools or wheeled transport, quarry, move, and raise megaliths weighing up to 50 tonnes into two standing temples more than a thousand years before the pyramids of Giza?

  c. 3600–3200 BCE (Neolithic, Ġgantija phase) · Xagħra, Gozo, MaltaAdded July 2026
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  Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum

  How did Neolithic Maltese communities, working only with stone, flint, chert, obsidian and antler tools, cut three precisely organized underground levels — including chambers that mimic the island's above-ground megalithic temples and a chamber with striking acoustic resonance — and what was the Hypogeum's exact ritual meaning to the people who used it?

  c. 4000–2500 BCE, Malta's Neolithic Temple Period · Paola, MaltaAdded July 2026