When construction workers in Malta broke through a layer of limestone in 1902, they expected to find little more than space for a new housing development. Instead, they stumbled upon one of the most ...

First things first: If you can't find Malta on a map and don't know what a hypogeum is, don't fret. Malta's a nation made up of three islands in the southern Mediterranean, and a hypogeum is an ...

Recent research on Malta's Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum reveals sophisticated prehistoric architectural design, moving beyond its perception as a simple burial cave. This underground complex, with its ...

A group of schoolchildren is believed to have gone missing in the underground chambers of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum a couple of decades after it was discovered in Paola. Given up for dead, the ...

A new collaboration with the National Archives seeks to collect memories and photographs of the historic site People with memories and photographs of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum are being encouraged to ...

The area in front of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum entrance in Paola has been inaugurated as a pedestrian zone, upon completion of a project which saw the paving of the street, the implementation of other ...

Elongated skulls discovered in 1926 by Temi Zammit at the Ħal Saflieni hypogeum have long been the source of multiple conspiracy theories. Described by Zammit as being “of the long variety ...

The Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum in Paola is described by Heritage Malta as an “outstanding underground burial complex that bears testimony to a civilisation that has disappeared”. The prehistoric site was ...

A pedestrian casually walking down Triq ic-Cimiterju in the town of Paola might easily walk right past one of Malta's greatest treasures unawares. The entrance to the Ħ al Saflieni Hypogeum is housed ...

Heritage Malta and archaeological researchers continue to classify the Hypogeum as a Neolithic sanctuary and necropolis built by Malta's prehistoric inhabitants rather than evidence of an unknown ...