Malta Travel Pod

Last day in Malta, from TravelPod:

Today was my last day in Malta...We took it easy today and went to the Museum of Archeology in Valletta. They moved all the real carved megaliths to the museum and put replicas at the temples which I didn't know about until I visited the museum...It was just interesting to think about how this cultured flourished and built massive temples and traded with all the surrounding islands and then just disappear. I guess they are not the only ones to pull that one since the Indus valley civilization did the same. If only I could have a device that allowed me to watch what happened to all these civilizations and all the ones we haven't found yet.

It is also sad that the Maltese didn't really care for this prehistory until recently and had done little to preserve it. It was not until I read the book Underworld by Graham Hancock when I heard about Malta. I don't recall learning about temples pre-dating the pyramids that were built with massive stones ever in any of my world history courses. Ah well, now I know. There could be many more such temples lying under the cities and dirt that we won't know about until someone starts looking and the Maltese don't seem to be in much of a hurry...

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