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As I have mentioned before, Malta is a tiny island-nation, but a unique and worthwhile destination for which over 5,000 years of intriguing history is ready for your discovery. From the stupendous fortifications of the capital, Valetta and the mysterious Bronze-age Temples of Tarxien and The Hal Safflieni Hypogeum in the suburbs of Paola to the colorful harbor of Marsaxlokk and the night-life of St. Julien...Malta is fascinating.
The picture on our Home Page is of one part of the Temple of Tarxien - megalithic structures thought to date between 3600 and 2500 BC.
Note the massive stone blocks; they are nine feet long, three feet wide and up to thirty inches thick. Where did they come from? There have been limestone quarries on Malta from time immemorial, but they are located a few miles distant from the Tarxien Temples.
A tantalizing clue has been left at on the temple grounds which may indicate how these massive slabs were transported across those miles. Big stone marbles! Slipped under the stone slabs and greased with animal fat they would act like wheels enabling humans to haul the slabs along with the aid of hemp rope and levers.
So how were they raised as lintels across other stone slabs? Ah! I think you should you go and look for yourself...it's fascinating and while you are on the island, do pay a visit to M'dina Glass and watch how their skilled artisans fuse a glass reproduction of one of the "old masterworks" - a Caravaggio, Van Gogh or perhaps a Picasso.
JoGarrard.com has purchased a "one-of" fusion reproduction for our E-store. We expect its arrival any day now and shall be featuring the work in a subsequent "Designer Collection"
Ken
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