Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum
Underground prehistoric burial complex hewn into limestone on three levels, with red ochre ceiling art.
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This guide to the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, beneath Paola near Valletta, begins in nineteen-oh-two with builders cutting rainwater cisterns for a row of new houses. It follows what they broke into, a burial place carved into limestone some six thousand years ago, and the farming people whose animals turn up among its finds. Listen for the painted spirals on the ceiling of the middle level.
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