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 ...

When one of his colleagues blew on a horn inside the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, an ancient, underground burial complex on the Mediterranean island of Malta, archaeologist Fernando Coimbra felt the sound ...

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 ...

The National Museum of Archaeology in the Maltese capital city of Valletta recently held a show entitled, "Malta, the great story of a small island-nation through 100 objects." Few places could tell ...

The discovery of the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum was entirely accidental. In 1902, labourers excavating cisterns for a residential development broke through the roof of a previously unknown underground ...