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For an area of only 316 km2, the Maltese Islands have an unusually large variety of types of limestone and other non-carbonate rocks that have […]

For centuries, between AD 1000 and 1530, the Maltese archipelago was intimately drawn into the Sicilian sphere of influence. The archipelago’s compact size and geographical […]

Recent intensive remote sensing surveys of the seabed continue to expand knowledge about the underwater cultural heritage of the Maltese Islands. The primary objective of […]

The Archaeological Society Malta is concerned about a proposed building development, to be decided in the coming weeks, which affects an early prehistoric site at […]

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 […]

From about the late first century BCE, a stone-vessel industry emerged in ancient Palestine which produced a unique corpus of chalkstone vessels whose distribution is […]

The archaeological record of the European Neolithic is marked by thousands of megalithic monuments of varied styles. Patterns in the orientation of similar megaliths betray […]

The study of ancient DNA is becoming increasingly useful for gaining information which cannot be obtained through traditional archaeological methods. The Maltese climate is not […]

The Roman port of Pozzuoli has been represented in many ways throughout various periods in time – paintings, etchings, narratives. A digital visualization is another […]

More than a thousand years ago, at the edge of Western Europe, 10th century Córdoba was the capital of Islamic Iberia, the “Jewel of the […]