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All over the Maltese islands, many mysterious temples were built thousands of years ago.

The plans of the Maltese Neolithic temples are based on a forecourt in front of a concave facade, a trilithon doorway leading to a central paved corridor from which semicircular rooms open on both sides.

Made using huge stone blocks in a period when no metal tools existed, the temples surprisingly survived until today when their gigantic structures can be still visited in Ggantija on Gozo, Hagar Qim, Mnajdra, Tarxien and the underground Hypogeum at Hal Saflieni on Malta.

Built in the honor of the Mother-Goddess of fertility, the temples seem to be the result of a superhuman effort.

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