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Prices include free postage within the USA.  Florida Residents subject to 7% sales tax.       100% of proceeds supports continuing research in Gozo and Malta.

$ 11.99

 

 

Tell Me About the Maltese Temples

ISBN: 0-9656252-3-0                
AUTHOR: Linda C. Eneix

DESCRIPTION:  Published by OTSF for students in Malta.  Full color photos accompany text in both English and Maltese to address frequently asked questions about the mysterious stone monuments of ancient Malta.  Did the temples have roofs?  Why do so many artifact figures have no heads?  How did the people bury their dead? A simple introduction to the lost civilization of builders.

 

 

$19.99

 

 

Malta, An Archaeological Paradise

ISBN: 0-9656252-2-2    
AUTHOR: Anthony Bonanno                    PHOTOGRAPHER: Mario Mintoff

DESCRIPTION: Anthony Bonanno's simple and lucid account makes pleasant, uncomplicated reading; its authenticity backed by solid scholarship and thorough good sense.  The superb photographic record matches to perfection his impressive account on the early history of Malta, making it a publication that is a pleasure to handle, visually rewarding to leaf through, reliable and informative to read and assimilate.  This new update edition contains eight pages on the recent acquisitions following excavation of the prehistoric underground cemetery at Xaghra Circle in Gozo. 
 

 

$29.99

 

 


Maltese Prehistoric Art,  5000-2500 BC 

ISBN: 99909-959-3-1           
EDITOR: Pace, Anthony                         

DESCRIPTION:  At the beginning of this century, Sir Themistocles Zammit surprised his Maltese countrymen and archaeologist peers with some of the most exciting and dramatic discoveries ever experienced.  This book is a compendium of articles, colorful illustrations and photographs documenting the priceless cultural treasure of a vanished civilization as much as 7,000 years old.  Created to accompany exhibition of the artifacts, the volume also contains a catalog of over 150 important pieces in the collection of the Malta National Museum of Archaeology.  Precious early drawings of the temple sites reveal informational detail which has since been lost.

 


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$19.99

  Echoes of Plato's Island

ISBN: 99932-15-01-5
Anton Mifsud, Simon Mifsud, Chris Agius Sultana, Charles Savona Ventura

DESCRIPTION: With a thoughtful presentation of evidence and reasoning, this book makes a compelling case for ancient Malta as the long sought island inspiration for Plato's myth of Atlantis.

 

 

$12.99

  Xrina at Hagar Qim

ISBN: 0-9656252-1-4
Story by Kent Clizbe, Illustrations by Ignat Konstantinov

DESCRIPTION: A wonderful full color gift to share with your favorite children.  Set in the period of Malta's Temple-Building Culture, a simple tale speaks to transcendent human emotion that could touch the life of any youngster: "This is an exciting day for Xrina.  They are setting the big stone at the new temple..."

 

 

$9.99

  Music of the Temples of Malta - for young pianists

Composed by Charles Camilleri

DESCRIPTION: Sheet music for beginners, designed by Malta's world-reknowned composer to accompany the children's book Xrina at Hagar Qim.   Contains five pieces: "Temples at Dawn", "Stone by Stone", "Xrina's Song", "Celebration Dance", "Temples at Dusk".  Portions can be heard on the OTSF documentary DVD about the Malta's Temple Culture: Legacy of a Lost Civilization.

 

 

$19.95

 

  Legacy of a Lost Civilization: The Extraordinary Temple-Builders of Malta

The original OTSF full-length documentary DVD

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