VV(1) - Malta -3

[David Morris]

http://www.otsf.org/

How much do you know about
the oldest stone buildings in the world?

How much do you know about
the Mediterranean's earliest civilization?

Scroll on . . .

http://www.otsf.org/introduction.html

Stones: very old, very big ones, made into imposing monuments by a 
mysterious advanced society. The oldest stone buildings on the planet remain 
clearly visible on dry land, almost in defiance.

At around 4,000 BC for the first time that we know of, an ancient race of 
people started moving huge stones to enclose space in the way they 
pre-designed it. With precision and grace, they perfected engineering 
marvels on the islands of Malta. Sightlines and symmetry are still 
exquisitely honored; humankind’s oldest calendar still marks equinox and 
solstice sunrise after more than 5,000 years. The structures, which we now 
know are far older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, are important solid 
evidence of the Mediterranean’s earliest civilization. Why were they built? 
A mystery. The spirals, painstakingly carved in relief and painted in red 
ochre, imply an ideology that was already firmly established long before the 
pantheon of the Nile. What are they about? Language? Prayer? Eternity and 
cyclical Mother Nature? Another mystery.

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