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🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Chalcolithic (Temple Period) · Maltese Temple culture (Ġgantija/Tarxien phases)
Hilltop megalithic temple overlooking Filfla islet, globigerina/coralline limestone, monumental façade with 57-tonne largest stone in Maltese temples.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Neolithic (Ġgantija phase) · Maltese Temple culture
Pair of cloverleaf temples with walls to 6 m high, coralline blocks >50 t, among earliest free-standing stone structures (c.3600 BCE), surrounded by massive outer wall on Gozo plateau.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Chalcolithic (Tarxien phase) · Maltese Temple culture
Four interconnected temples with spiral reliefs, animal friezes and 2.7 m mother-goddess statue fragment. Most decorated of Maltese temples, adjacent to Hal Saflieni Hypogeum.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Chalcolithic · Maltese Temple culture
Clifftop complex of three conjoined temples 500 m below Ħaġar Qim; best preserved in Malta with corbelled walls, precise equinox/solstice solar alignments through doorways.
