When construction workers in Malta broke through a layer of limestone in 1902, they expected to find little more than space for a new housing development. Instead, they stumbled upon one of the most ...

This month, one of the world’s best preserved prehistoric sites — a 6,000-year-old underground burial chamber on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta — reopened to the public. Last June, Hal ...

First things first: If you can't find Malta on a map and don't know what a hypogeum is, don't fret. Malta's a nation made up of three islands in the southern Mediterranean, and a hypogeum is an ...

A group of schoolchildren is believed to have gone missing in the underground chambers of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum a couple of decades after it was discovered in Paola. Given up for dead, the ...

However, recent research on the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum has led historians and archaeologists to reconsider the building skills of prehistoric builders. Contrary to the popular perception of it as a ...

A new collaboration with the National Archives seeks to collect memories and photographs of the historic site People with memories and photographs of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum are being encouraged to ...

The burial place known as the “Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni”, was so named after the street under which it was discovered in the early years of the last century. Hypogeum is the Latin name for an ...

The name will be new to most people – in fact, it was only coined last week – but it is one of Malta’s greatest archaeological sites, with a significance that ranges further than Malta’s confines, ...

Elongated skulls discovered in 1926 by Temi Zammit at the Ħal Saflieni hypogeum have long been the source of multiple conspiracy theories. Described by Zammit as being “of the long variety ...