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that marked the entrance to the
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The four contemporary houses built on the site of the hypogeum were demolished to build a museum. Further excavations took place between 1990 and 1993 by
Anthony Pace, Nathaniel Cutajar and Reuben Grima. The Hypogeum was then closed to visitors between 1991 and 2000 for restoration works and to
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series of steps, lintels and doorways. The upper level is thought to have been occupied first, with the middle and lower levels expanded and excavated later. Some of the middle chambers appear to share stylistic characteristics with the contemporaneous
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The
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690:: Near the Oracle Room is another spacious hall, circular, with inward slanting smooth walls, richly decorated in a geometrical pattern of spirals. On the right side wall of the entrance is a
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The temple structure uses a careful direction of light from the surface to penetrate into the lower chambers, with intricate patterns painted on portions of the ceiling with
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themes, with one side realistically depicting bovines, pigs and goats, and the other side representing hatched animals hidden within complex geometric patterns.
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and human remains, were emptied out and discarded without being properly catalogued. Magri's death in 1907 while conducting missionary work in
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entrances are represented, some blind, and others leading to another chamber. Most of the wall surface has received a red wash of
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Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island
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illuminated its facade from the original opening above.
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UNESCO World Heritage List. "Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum."
1330:"The Mysterious Disappearance of the Maltese Skulls"
584:. A small percentage of the skulls have an abnormal
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Medieval Malta: Studies on Malta before the Knights
371:(3300 – 3000 BC) in Maltese prehistory, located in
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86:Ħal Saflieni Prehistoric Hypogeum (official name)
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859:Place-names of the Maltese Islands ca. 1300-1800
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782:List of World Heritage Sites in Western Europe
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1402:"Hal Saflieni Hypogeum to re-open on 15 May"
1374:"Revamped Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum inaugurated"
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1744:Megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
1453:. Malta: Freedom Press. p. 19.
542:The Sleeping Lady of Ħal Saflieni,
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911:. In Luttrell, Anthony T. (ed.).
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218:Preserved and restored in 2017
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1046:Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places
976:Vella, Fiona (23 July 2019).
837:Zammit, Themistocles (1910).
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1451:The Hypogeum at Hal-Saflieni
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43:The Hypogeum, photograph by
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2296:Vale Maria do Meio Cromlech
2266:Barreira Megalithic Complex
1764:Route of Megalithic Culture
1136:"The Hal Saflieni Hypogeum"
907:Wettinger, Godfrey (1975).
857:Wettinger, Godfrey (2000).
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2414:Dolmen del prado de Lácara
2261:Great Dolmen of Zambujeiro
1841:List of five-stone circles
1815:La Gran'mère du Chimquière
1479:Unesco World Heritage Site
1314:Interestingengineering.com
1050:. New Page Books. p.
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1976:Templebryan Stone Circle
1876:Brennanstown Portal Tomb
1628:Broken Menhir of Er Grah
1042:Haughton, Brian (2008).
884:"Lost villages in Malta"
810:Sagona, Claudia (2015).
567:spiritual transformation
344:Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni
327:Europe and North America
31:Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni
18:Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni
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2384:Chabola de la Hechicera
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2241:Antas do Olival da Pêga
1901:Castlenalacht Stone Row
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1633:Dolmen de Mané-Kerioned
1229:"Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum"
1076:"Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum"
949:McDonald, Neil (2016).
352:Ipoġew ta' Ħal Saflieni
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3140:Recumbent stone circle
2536:Burnmoor stone circles
2379:Antequera Dolmens Site
2327:Megaliths in the Urals
1754:Oldendorfer Totenstatt
1668:Locmariaquer megaliths
1618:Menhir de Champ-Dolent
1256:Magli, Giulio (2009).
1160:Pace, Anthony (2004).
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2271:Dolmen of Cunha Baixa
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1911:Creevykeel Court Tomb
1283:Kelly, Lynne (2017).
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2276:Dolmen of Carapito I
2236:Anta do Monte Abraão
1866:Beltany stone circle
1698:Verziau of Gargantua
1334:Hera Magazine, Italy
1168:: Midsea Books Ltd.
777:World Heritage Sites
624:found across Malta.
421:means "village" and
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2133:Xagħra Stone Circle
1931:Grange stone circle
1906:Castlestrange Stone
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762:Xagħra Stone Circle
739:National War Museum
451:Themistocles Zammit
407:Xagħra Stone Circle
227:Government of Malta
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2256:Anta da Vidigueira
2221:Anta de Carcavelos
2196:Almendres Cromlech
2023:Megalithic Temples
1986:Uragh Stone Circle
1966:Poulnabrone dolmen
1769:Sieben Steinhäuser
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2201:Anta de Adrenunes
2072:Qortin l-Imdawwar
1881:Brownshill dolmen
1800:Le Creux ès Faïes
1688:Tombeau de Merlin
1623:Dolmen de Bagneux
1603:Tumulus of Bougon
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1289:. Pegasus Books.
1198:. 21 January 2014
922:978-0-904152-02-9
888:Digital Genealogy
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1951:Meehambee Dolmen
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