Although the main attraction of Malta resides in its monumental heritage, fundamentally from the Modern Age to the Contemporary, also appearing in the guides, and with capital letters, the abundant megalithic constructions scattered throughout the archipelago. It is known that this small group of
Using a sample taken from one of the stones in the 1950s, British and South African researchers were finally able to solve one of the lingering mysteries around the Stonehenge site:that of the origin of the megaliths, taken from a small wood 25 kilometers away. If the origin of the smaller stones
Most of the huge blocks of sandstone, called sarsens , which make up the famous monument of Stonehenge in the United Kingdom appear to share a common origin 25 kilometers away in West Woods, Wiltshire, according to a recently published analysis of the chemical composition of the stones. The finding
A German-Tunisian team co-led by LMU (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) archaeologist Stefan Ritter has inspected the ancient city of Meninx southeast of the island of Jerba, near the modern city of Henchir El Kantara in Tunisia, and has rebuilt its trade links in ancient times. The port of