National Museum of Archaeology | Valletta
Prehistoric museum of temple altars, animal reliefs and corpulent stone figures in a Knights' auberge.
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This guide to the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta begins with Lorenzo Despott, a farmer at Tarxien whose plough kept catching on stone in nineteen thirteen, and the museum director who came to dig. It follows the goats, bulls and pigs carved on blocks brought here from the temples, and the heavy-limbed stone figures once nicknamed the Fat Ladies. Best heard standing beside the Tarxien carvings.
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