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The
Tarxien temple is situated on the main island of Malta and
is
close to the subterranean temple complex of the Hypogeum Hal
Saflieni. As
is the case with all the other temples of Malta,
the big question is whether this ‘temple’ really
was a place of worship or whether it had some other purpose.
The
architecture is typical of all temples on Malta.
It is in
a shape that resembles a
clover-leaf with walls consisting of two separate walls made of
megalithic slabs a few metres apart. The space in between the two walls
was filled
with
sand and stone rubble. This created a solid wall which
still stands
after many millennia.
The length to width ratio is roughly 40 to 30 metres
and some of the
megalithic slabs are more than 6 metres high.
It is unclear whether it was ever roofed. The
walls seem unsuited to bearing heavy megalithic roof plates.
This temple was
excavated between 1910 and 1920. The
temple is placed in the timeframe 3600 – 3000 BC but this
dating has never been scientifically proven.
There are many
questions. Why is this temple here, on an island, far away from
populated
areas? Perhaps it wasn't an island at all in those days. Was it part of the mainland?
And who
quarried and transported the enormous slabs?
It doesn’t make sense. More in the book
"Verborgen
geheimen van de mensheid", and in ref. Mayrhofer
and Zammit.
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