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After over ten years of exploring the surface of the Phoenician Shipwreck of Xlendi Bay, a team led by the University of Malta has planned […]

The discipline of archaeology is historically bound to identity, be it national, ethnic or otherwise. Such a bond is inherently political, so archaeology also becomes […]

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or as they are called colloquially, drones, have supported the documentation of cultural heritage and archaeology for over two decades, with […]

North of the Greek colony of Leontinoi and on the southern edge of its ancient chora, today’s Piana di Catania, rises a hilly ridge from […]

The section of Heritage Malta’s Phoenician, Roman and Medieval sites is one of the largest curatorial sections within the Agency. Its work is to maintain […]

We spend most of our lives within the built environment, be it at home, at a place of work, or whilst participating in education, business […]

Għar Gerduf is a truly unique Roman burial site in Gozo that has always attracted the attention of scholars interested in our islands’ archaeology. Already […]

Several of the lead anchor stocks of the Roman era retrieved from the sea off Malta bear images in relief, from the names of the […]

Lampedusa is another central Mediterranean island, but geographically even further out in the open sea than Malta. In spite of this, it shares with Malta […]

The Mediterranean looms large through human history. In antiquity in particular, the Mediterranean Sea was a superhighway for trade and exchange, contacts and communication, migration […]