April
23
/ 2013
Everyone knows about the magnificent temples of ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, but one country containing some of the oldest and best-preserved temples in the world gets comparatively little attention - Malta. Malta is a southern European country in the Mediterranean Sea, just 80 kilometres south of Sicily. The country covers just over 300 km 2, making it one of the world's smallest and most densely populated countries. Yet on this small island country, there are literally dozens of ancient sites, eleven megalithic temples, and seven of them are UNESCO World Heritage Listed. Although debatable, UNESCO describes Malta's prehistoric temples as the "oldest free standing monuments on Earth". The temples date from 5,500 to 2,500 BC, making them older than
