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Wednesday, 7 March 2012

National Museum of Archaeology - Can you Dig It?

The Sleeping Lady














Malta is home to a number of well-preserved prehistoric sites, like the Gigantija temples in Gozo and the Hypogeum Hal Saflieni in Paola, as well as many others.  And so it is no surprise that the Museum of Archaeology in Valletta is well stocked with artefacts from various of these locations.

It's a nice little museum, although 'little' is certainly the operative word.  When I visited the upper floor was closed for renovations, and the ground floor does not take too long to navigate.  You can wander around and look at the things that long-ago people hacked out of the stone and which have been rediscovered millenia later, and also learn a little bit about some of those ancient sites.