Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Malta.
Special thanks to the head of department Dr Carmel Serracino.
Lecture: Place names & terms related to frontier terminology from the Arab conquest period, 7th-10th Century: comparative history & archaeology around the Mediterranean and the Maltese Islands
Lecture by Fr Eugene P. Teuma OFM Conv., independent researcher. Recording and interpreting place-names can lead us to discover new and tantalizing facts and realities [...]
Lecture: Looking for a US airman in Maltese waters – the excavation of a WWII bomber
Fortress Builders Interpretation Centre St Mark Street Valletta, Valletta, MaltaLecture by Professor Timmy Gambin. In May 1943 the Allies were turning the tide of the war in the Mediterranean and were on the offensive [...]
Lecture: Rebuilding the Lost Past
National Museum of Archaeology Auberge de Provence, Triq ir-Repubblika, Valletta, MaltaA virtual reconstruction of destroyed archaeological sites documented in the 18th and 19th Century Lecture by Marco Mion. The reconstruction of the past is arguably [...]
Lecture: An encounter with Luigi Ugolini, an archaeologist
Lecture by Prof Nicholas C. Vella - University of Malta. You may download the presentation (PDF, ~40Mb). https://youtu.be/K-1FuU9Yjxc
Lecture: Bur Mgħeż: biography of a lost Neolithic site
Hotel Excelsior Floriana, MaltaLecture by Dr Omar N'Shea - International School for Foundation Studies, University of Malta. Abstract: In 1911, during research conducted at a quarry in Imqabba known [...]
Rediscovering Roman Malta
Hotel Excelsior Floriana, MaltaLecture by Mr David Cardona - Senior Manager, Professional Services and Phoenician, Roman and Medieval Sites, Heritage Malta. Rediscovering Roman Malta Field report 2023 from [...]
An archaeological perspective of the Magistral Palace. Preliminary results of the archaeological investigations.
Hotel Excelsior Floriana, MaltaLecture by Mr Christian Mifsud - Curator for Historic Buildings, Heritage Malta. An archaeological perspective of the Magistral Palace. Preliminary results of the archaeological investigations. [...]
Towards an Archaeology of Privacy
Hotel Excelsior Floriana, MaltaLecture by Professor Joseph Cannataci - Head of the Department of Information Policy & Governance, University of Malta. Towards an Archaeology of Privacy. A decade [...]
Archaeology of earthen architecture in the western Mediterranean, with particular regard to southern France
Hotel Excelsior Floriana, MaltaLecture by Dr Alessandro Peinetti - Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Università di Bologna. Contributors: Alessandro Peinetti (Inrap, Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, France; UMR 5140 ASM [...]
Dun Ġwann Farrugia and two ‘young assistants’: reassessing the legacy of amateur archaeology
Hotel Excelsior Floriana, MaltaLecture by Dr Anton Bugeja In the late 1940s, three men set out on an ambitious quest to explore and document all the archaeological sites [...]
Archaeology at the Malta Pavilion, British Empire Exhibition, 1924
Hotel Excelsior Floriana, MaltaLecture by Prof. Reuben Grima The British Empire Exhibition held at Wembley in 1924 and 1925 drew a larger audience than any other mega-event in [...]
Catacomb rediscoveries in Malta and Italy: an overview
Hotel Excelsior Floriana, MaltaLecture by Dr Chiara Cecalupo The presence of large underground Christian cemeteries in various places in the Mediterranean has attracted the attention of many scholars, [...]
Understanding ancient inscriptions: the case of CIS I, 123, CIS I,123 bis, and the Tal-Virtù Papyrus
Hotel Excelsior Floriana, MaltaLecture by Prof. Anthony J. Frendo In attempting to understand the three Phoenician inscriptions from Malta selected for this talk, it will be shown that [...]