Ġgantija Archaeological Park
Twin Neolithic megalithic temples on a Gozo hilltop, enclosed by one shared boundary wall.
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This guide to Ġgantija Archaeological Park on Gozo, a ferry ride from Valletta, follows two men on the same hilltop in the late eighteen twenties: Colonel John Otto Bayer, the British official clearing the temples, and Charles Frederick de Brocktorff, a Valletta painter with a box of watercolours. It asks what a dig loses when nobody is taking notes. Start at the southern entrance, where the great threshold slab lies at your feet.
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