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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 […]

Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet, one of the world’s top medical universities, was founded in 1810.  The university’s craniological collection was established between 1862 and 1890, having […]

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 […]