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 ...

First things first: If you can't find Malta on a map and don't know what a hypogeum is, don't fret. Malta's a nation made up of three islands in the southern Mediterranean, and a hypogeum is an ...

1979: expert mission on climatology and hydrology; 1980: expert mission in hydrology ; 1990: expert mission to examine the ventilation system ; August 1994: UNESCO mission 1990 Expert Mission Report, ...

People with memories and photographs of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum are being encouraged to come forward and share them as part of a new project aimed at enriching storytelling at the heritage site.

The Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum in Paola is described by Heritage Malta as an “outstanding underground burial complex that bears testimony to a civilisation that has disappeared”. The prehistoric site was ...

The area in front of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum entrance in Paola has been inaugurated as a pedestrian zone, upon completion of a project which saw the paving of the street, the implementation of other ...

Elongated skulls discovered in 1926 by Temi Zammit at the Ħal Saflieni hypogeum have long been the source of multiple conspiracy theories. Described by Zammit as being “of the long variety ...

The Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, an underground cemetery used by Malta’s prehistoric society, is an exceptional prehistoric monument testifying to the artistic and architectural accomplishments of this ...

In collaboration with the National Archives of Malta and their Memorja project, Heritage Malta is announcing a new initiative to document the recent history and personal connections of the community ...