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There are more than twenty three (23) places on Malta and Gozo where it is known that megalithic buildings once stood. Many of the sites have been reduced by people or by time to a rough outline and a few standing stones. There may be more temples. After all this time, other buildings have been built up over the ruins. Sometimes, instead of cutting fresh stone from the ground, later people (including Phoenicians and Romans) re-quarried stones from the temples to build houses and huts, and walls around the fields. Five complexes remain remarkably
well-preserved. They are known as Ggantija, Hagar Qim, Mnajdra,
Tarxien, and a wonderful underground temple called the Hal-Saflieni
Hypogeum. (Read an article about the Hypogeum
at
http://otsf.org/Archaeoacoustics.htm )
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