Għar Dalam
Ice Age cave packed with dwarf elephant and hippo bones, beside a museum of Victorian-style displays.
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This guide to Għar Dalam, the Ice Age cave and museum near Birżebbuġa in Malta's south, starts at the rows of bones in the Joseph Baldacchino Hall and asks why anyone would rob a cabinet of fossils. It reaches back to Arturo Issel's dig in eighteen sixty-five and the hippos, bears and shrunken elephants buried in the cave, then turns to a night in nineteen eighty. Best heard standing in front of the Victorian-style cases.
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