Underwater heritage site freed of encumbering net
The Underwater Cultural Heritage Unit (UCHU) within Heritage Malta, in its continuing collaboration with the ATLAM Dive Club, completed the removal of a net from the Southwold Bow site, one of [...]
Obscure tales about Mdina and Rabat recounted in Heritage Malta webinar
Gruesome tales involving Mdina and Rabat will be recounted in a webinar by Heritage Malta on Tuesday, 26th January. A virtual tour during this webinar will wander down murky alleyways and dark [...]
Roman-era olive grove to be protected through close collaboration between Ambjent Malta and Heritage Malta
Ambjent Malta and Heritage Malta have been collaborating closely to ensure the protection and upkeep of an olive grove with significant importance in Bidnija, with trees as old as 1,800 years. [...]
A Giant Anniversary for UNESCO listed Temples
In Gozitan folklore, the Neolithic temples of Ġgantija were actually believed -on account of the size of their enormous megaliths- to have been constructed by a giantess fed on a diet of broad [...]
Jekk tkun ġgant f’senegħtek, tibni tempji li jisfidaw iż-żmien
Kif jista’ jkun?! Din hi l-mistoqsija li tibqa’ tirbombja f’moħħok fil-ħemda tal-Ġgantija, fejn tħossok ċkejken mhux biss ħdejn id-daqs tal-ħaġar li jsawru dawn it-tempji iżda, iktar u iktar, [...]
Armati sa snienhom…bil-pniezel u l-kuluri
“For some must watch, while others sleep, so runs the world away.” Xi ħadd, xi darba, kiteb dan il-vers – meħud (mhux kelma b’kelma) minn Hamlet ta’ William Shakespeare – taħt pittura mdaqqsa li [...]
Natural History Museum to reopen in January, voucher and discount schemes extended
The National Museum of Natural History will reopen on the 9th of January 2021. It has been closed to the public for the past months, allowing the completion of extensive structural and [...]
The Hypogeum skulls on display at the National Museum of Archaeology
The Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum skulls, which have captured popular imagination since they were unearthed, are currently on display at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta, in an exhibition [...]