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Deciding what to exhibit in museums: does it really matter?

30/09/2017

By: Veronica Barbara Of all the abundant papers focusing on museum environments, few dismantle the decisionmaking process which characterizes the planning of displays and site presentations, going beyond […]

Archaeology and archaeological discourse in pre-Independence Malta

30/09/2017

By: Anna Maria This paper argues that the institution of the Missione Archeologica Italiana a Malta in 1963 is the offspring of the archaeological policies endorsed […]

A functional analysis of glass from an officers’ mess, Malta

30/09/2017

By: Russell Palmer The nineteenth century witnessed an explosion in the use of glass as a material from which containers and tableware were made. No longer confined […]

Religious identity and perceptions of afterlife gleaned from a funerary monument to a young girl from (late) Roman Melite

30/09/2017

By: George Azzopardi Possibly late during the Roman occupation of Malta, a young deceased girl had a funerary monument set up in her memory by her […]

A farewell to Neo-Punic: Taċ-Ċagħqi revisited

30/09/2017

By: Abigail Zammit and Robert M. Kerr The alleged inscriptions in the south-east hypogeum of Taċ-Ċagħqi (within the premises of St Nicholas College in Rabat, Malta) were […]

Tradition, time and narrative: rethinking the Late Neolithic of the Maltese Islands

30/09/2017

By: Isabelle Vella Gregory This paper reconsiders the Late Neolithic of the Maltese Islands from a broader perspective. It argues that the prevailing narrative centred on passively […]