Posted on 03/01/2006 10:30:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv
These are rock-cut tombs, and they belong to the period just before the freestanding buildings started to be constructed. These tombs were scientifically excavated in 1955, although they had been known to exist long before that time. The unfortunate thing about it is that they had always been thought to belong to the Phoenician and Roman periods, and thus there was no real hurry to investigate them, as in Malta there are hundreds of tombs belonging to the classical period... Upon excavation, many animal and human remains were discovered in the tombs.
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