Some highlights from the temple complex at Ggantija, c. 3,500 BC...
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| Drone view...helpful model #456,289; five apses on the left, four on the right |
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Approaching, dorsal view
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| It's warm and sunny; not that bad, but we're taking refuge under a carob tree |
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| Approaching |
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Heritage Malta has done a wonderful job in displaying these sites and in
permitting access to them |
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So the thing here, if you're expecting Stonehenge, is that the rock is limestone;
it is easily worked; but it is easily weathered |
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| One of the apses |
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| One of the entry ways, looking back: finely worked orthostats |
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A wall in some danger of collapse; buttressed until they figure out how to save
it |
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How the ancients moved and set the gigantic stones is a mystery; some
theorize they used spherical stones, much like ball-bearings |
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| Such stones appear in abundance at the various sites |
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| Another apse |
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Another mystery is the holes in the big rocks...gigantic
cup-marks? |
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And then there are these "rooms," post and lintel, finely worked; we'll see more
of such at the Hypogeum, in a few days |
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