Mnajdra Archaeological Park
Clifftop Neolithic temples over five thousand years old, aligned to equinox and solstice sunrises.
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This guide to Mnajdra Archaeological Park, on the cliffs south of Valletta, turns on a spring night in two thousand and one, when at least three people cut through the fence of a temple complex that had stood for more than five thousand years. It follows the bird hunters who fell under suspicion and the restorers called in afterwards. Stand by the lowest temple, whose doorway catches the sunrise at the equinoxes.
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