The mystery of the bones in St Gregory's Chapel, Malta On 12th March, 1969, fifty four years ago, work was being carried out on the transept side of the Chapel of San Girgor (St Gregory) at Zejtun. Ruben Abela was a 16-year-old youth at the time and was helping his uncle in carrying out screed roof shuttering when he came across what seemed to be a...

The people of the Maltese Islands lived in a state of great contrast for almost 3,000 years, a contrast between those that have and those that have not. And there was little probability of bridging the gap or crossing the strait from one to the other unless by some kind of miraculous event. Visitors to Malta and Gozo ranging back over many centurie...

The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, Hadrian's Wall, the US-Mexico Border Wall and the Aurelian Walls around Rome as well as fortifications and walls around the world's major cities – all have recognition. Malta and Gozo, being humble and small, its forts, bastions and walls are largely internationally unknown, yet on a per kilometre scale, th...

"I have been visiting the prehistoric ruins all round the Mediterranean, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, Greece and Switzerland, but I have nowhere seen places as old as these." So wrote V. Gordon Childe, the former Professor of Prehistoric European Archaeology from London University's Institute of Archaeology, after visiting Malta's Ħaġar Qim and other...

Living on small islands renders one to being a very minor citizen on the international scale of things. However, there is always the enormous sensual and mental satisfaction of being involved and being a part of all that happens around you. If you are in the British Isles and there is an international yacht race starting from Aberdeen while you are...

The islands of Malta and Gozo have been designated an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. As a result of past beliefs and religious developments there are 359 churches and chapels on the two islands of separate diocese, 313 of which are in Malta and 46 in Gozo and these devolve into 78 parishes in Malta and 15 in Gozo and six parish...