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The oldest of the Tarxien temples in Paola, Malta. Badly damaged by plowing, it dates to circa 3600-3000 BCE.
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Malta photo gallery : Valletta - Marsaxlokk - Floriana - Mdina - Paola - Dingli - Birgu - Senglea - Cospicua - Tarxien - Paceville - Sliema - St. Julian's - Cirkewwa - Zurrieq - Dwejra - Mgarr - Victoria - Xaghra - Xewkija - Gzira - Ta' Xbiex - Birzebbuga - Qawra - Comino
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One of the altars found in the mysterious Tarxien Temples of Malta.
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Tis the end of the 2nd round of our trip. Figured I would highlight the top 10 stops we made.
Stonehenge - we weren't going to visit London and not make this stop. Glad we did cause this pic is EPIC! Look, there is even a dove flying over my head. Just epic...
Large Hadron Collider - Geneva Switzerland is one of the two most expensive places in all of Europe. (Zurich is the other). We went out and had Fondue for dinner and I told the Airbnb host "man, we just went to a really expensive restaurant, but it was good." Turned out to be the cheapest meal we could find during that stop. Our francs were going fast. Like atoms flying near the speed of light.. see what I did there?
Rialto Bridge - Venice Italy has our affection. Next trip we take to France will no doubt include another visit to the City of Love. I miss you, Spritzes!
The Colosseum - Rome overwhelmed us with all it had to offer. We were seeing sites and taking pics trying to collect them all, but the Pokemon were too many. Literally, we would see one thing and be like wow, and then turn around and there was something else. We had to go home the first day and regroup with a plan for what we wanted to see, cause it was out of control. So next we went and saw....
Pompeii - Probably the single most amazing ancient site we saw on this trip (and we saw a lot). Being allowed to explore with no limitations, and experiencing walking through the streets and standing in the rooms the way the citizens of Pompeii once did was enough to keep me looking over my shoulder and asking "did you hear something?"
Roman Aquaducts - totally underrated. These are GIANT structures spanning I don't know how far, bringing water to cities that could not exist without them. It was like seeing dinosaur bones left standing in their tracks in the middle of a field. Too cool.
Baths of Caracalla - it took 9000 workers 5 years to build. When it was completed, 6000 Romans at a time could come bathe in this giant complex. Another underrated site defined as such because I'd never heard of them and this Tumblr is all about me, let's face it.
GGANTIJA - while visiting Malta, we saw the Tarxien Temples, Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, Hagar Qim, Mjandra Temple, and the beast you see above. A solid tour of ancient temples so epic, people make money writing books and TV shows about how aliens must have been involved. The feeling I got, having visited these, is I have to pick one view or the other: either it's AMAZING what early man accomplished or aliens are kind of disappointing in their lack of terrestrial abilities.
I choose to be amazed. We had a guide on the morning of the Spring Equinox who said: "it's kind of insulting to our ancestors that we see what they were able to achieve and say "you couldn't have done this on your own, you had help." Instead, we can stand in awe of what can be achieved when mankind works together toward a common goal."
The Phoenician Cart Ruts - Probably aliens.
Arc de Triomf - Does this belong in the top 10? Maybe not, but I can't just leave Barcelona Spain off the list completely. We intend to come back and visit. If we skip dinners in Geneva, we should be able to afford to stay here for a month or so. That will be nice.
I think we had hit our max on wanting to experience all the sites and sounds of the European Pokemon collecting by our last day in Barcelona, cause instead of rushing from Site A to Site B, we just bought a few Estrella Damms (popular beer in Spain) from a corner market and brought them into a Taco Bell and had a picnic, lol. That's a true story.
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Malta’s Landscape of Limestone Malta, the archipelago located between the Italian island of Sicily and the North African coast, grew from materials that were once at the bottom of the sea. Millions of years later, those materials would form the bedrock of the region’s built environment. The Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9 acquired these natural-color images of the archipelago on October 27, 2022. Most prominent in the image above are the island nation’s three largest islands: Malta, Gozo, and Comino. Notice the yellow-gray hue across much of the islands, especially at built-up areas and beaches. This is the color of limestone—a major geologic component of the island and a widely used building material. The oldest rocks are lower coralline limestone, which formed as the skeletons of coral and other aquatic creatures built up from at the seafloor starting around 30 million years ago. The second-oldest rocks are globigerina limestone, which formed from the calcium carbonate shells of marine plankton. Outcrops of these rocks span about 70 percent of the islands. In Valletta, the island nation’s capital city, fortifications were built using limestone excavated from surrounding ditches. The walled city—built after the Siege of Malta in 1565—is located on a peninsula between two harbors, which has helped the perimeter of this UNESCO world heritage site to remain mostly unchanged. There are places where use of the islands’ limestone for building dates even farther back. Several megalithic temples across the islands were built during the fourth and third millennium B.C.E. and are among the oldest-known freestanding structures on Earth. Island inhabitants often used the harder coralline limestone for external walls and the softer globigerina limestone for interior spaces and decoration. Although the structures have stood for millennia, they remain susceptible to degradation from the surrounding environment. The detailed image shows the area around the prehistoric complex of Tarxien. Notice the white tent, which was erected over the complex to help shelter it from the weathering effects of rain and sunlight. Experts continue to monitor how these and other factors, such as salt, humidity, and temperature fluctuations, affect the structures. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.
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Hi! I am Franklin - the owner and photographer for all the images you see here! I was born in 1985, in the picturesque village of Tarxien in the island of Malta, and pursued my studies and graduated as a mechanical engineer in 2007. Although engineering and art may seem to be unrelated, I grew fond of industrial design and this sharpened my appreciation to geometry and symmetry - which I now find so useful in my photography.
My photographic journey started (and continues) with a passion for street photography during which I document people in their daily mundane activities. I feel that my vision has been influenced by my Christian upbringing and values, as in my photography I seek to display the invisible and spiritual realm with the physical and optical dimensions. I also create creative portraits, brand and interior design imagery for commercial clients.
This love of documenting people, their personality and connections has through the years lead me to photograph couples from all over the world including couples from China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, England, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Russia, Germany, Latvia, India, and the USA. I just love meeting and working with people from all over the world!
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Book Review - The Maltese Dreamer (🇲🇹 Malta)
[image 1: book cover - a photograph of an ancient stone figurine. She lays on her side, with wide thighs, arms, and breasts, one arm supporting her head as in sleep; image 2: a map showing Malta in the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily, Italy; image 3: limestone remains of the Tarxien temple, showing an altar with spiral carvings - source: wikimedia]
The Maltese Dreamer
Author: Catherine Veritas
World Challenge book for 🇲🇹 Malta
Review
This is a little self-published book from the little island of Malta in the Mediterranean. It imagines the island in pre-Roman 728 BC.
Nuriya is a young woman of Egyptian-Phoenician heritage, who has been raised by an old healer who lives as hermit. As an apprentice to the healer, she follows her on home calls for those who need treatment. Nuriya soon realizes her gift that emerges is more than herbs and teas.
As the story contrasts the ancient Neolithic temples of the area with the foreign Phoenicians eager to conquer, Nuriya's mystic journey of self-discovery leads her to difficult decisions to be made (not to mention a love triangle).
I enjoyed the magical healing and the ancient culture of this book. I'd recommend it for a quiet fantasy with an earthy, Mother Goddess belief system. (though be warned there are 2 sexual assault scenes, as well as consensual scenes.)
★ ★ ★ ★ 4 stars
Genres: #historical, ancient #fantasy #romance
Other reps: #m/f #biracial
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This is all that remains of a very large Mother Goddess statue carved in 3000 BC at the Tarxien Temples in Malta. Not much is known about the people who carved the statues and built the temples because they didn't leave any sort of writings to decipher - but it believed that they started building stone structures as much as seven thousand years ago, which is pretty incredible. Remember that all of this was done without metal tools - just stone implements cutting away the softer limestone. I have a passion for ancient history and was quite moved by this place.
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Stone block from the prehistoric temple at Buġibba, Malta, bearing a carved image of fish. The temple was excavated by the Maltese archaeologist Themistocles Zammit in the early 1920s and dates to the Tarxien phase of Maltese prehistory (ca. 3100-2500 BCE), the last phase prior to the Bronze Age. This block, along with an altar from the temple, is now located in the National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta.
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The Pretoria Bar in Tarxien features a skillfully crafted shop sign having retro typography commonly used on shop fronts in days gone by but that today has become somewhat of a rarity. THE NICHE On the corner with Triq ix-Xintill is the recently restored niche housing a statue of Our Lady of the Rosary. The niche is situated high up on the façade of a private residence that can be found on the corner between the crossing of Pjazza tas-Suq and Triq ix-Xintill. This niche is a large one and executed in stone. It is composed of a rounded console with a frieze of geometric design and a blank inscription. On either side of the console, there are two inverted rectangular consoles that hold up the weight of two blank pilasters and an Ionic capital. These in turn support the hefty weight of a double entablature and a bulky cornice. The upper part of the niche is capped with a broken aedicule and a slender cross. Inside the shallow recess of the niche there is a finely sculpted scallop shell under which is the life-size statue of the Madonna and Baby Jesus do you know Capitals. They are wonderfully modeled with flawing drapery folds and precision anatomical depiction. Both the Madonna and Child are seen extending their hand outwards as they show their rosary beads. (at Tarxien) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckv4UF8IeQB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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The Tarxien Temples consist of three separate, but attached, temple structures. The main entrance is a reconstruction dating from 1956, when the whole site was restored. At the same time, many of the decorated slabs discovered on site were relocated indoors for protection at the Museum of Archaeology in Valletta. The first temple has been dated to approximately 3100 BC and is the most elaborately decorated of the temples of Malta. The middle temple dates to about 3000 BC, and is unique in that, unlike the rest of the Maltese temples, it has three pairs of apses instead of the usual two. The east temple is dated at around 3100 BC. The remains of another temple, smaller, and older, having been dated to 3250 BC, are visible further towards the east.
Of particular interest at the temple site is the rich and intricate stonework, which includes depictions of domestic animals carved in relief, altars, and screens decorated with spiral designs and other patterns. Demonstrative of the skill of the builders is a chamber set into the thickness of the wall between the South and Central temples and containing a relief showing a bull and a sow.
Excavation of the site reveals that it was used extensively for rituals, which probably involved animal sacrifice. Especially of interest at Tarxien is that stone rollers left outside the South temple were probably used for transporting the megaliths. Additionally, evidence of cremation has been found at the center of the South temple, which is an indicator that the site was reused as a Bronze Age cremation cemetery.
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International Wedding Photographer based in Malta. My journalistic storytelling style evokes authentic moments and emotions. Malta Wedding Photographer. Wedding malta photographer
About Company:-
Hi! I am Franklin - the owner and photographer for all the images you see here! I was born in 1985, in the picturesque village of Tarxien in the island of Malta, and pursued my studies and graduated as a mechanical engineer in 2007. Although engineering and art may seem to be unrelated, I grew fond of industrial design and this sharpened my appreciation to geometry and symmetry - which I now find so useful in my photography.
My photographic journey started (and continues) with a passion for street photography during which I document people in their daily mundane activities. I feel that my vision has been influenced by my Christian upbringing and values, as in my photography I seek to display the invisible and spiritual realm with the physical and optical dimensions. I also create creative portraits, brand and interior design imagery for commercial clients.
This love of documenting people, their personality and connections has through the years lead me to photograph couples from all over the world including couples from China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, England, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Russia, Germany, Latvia, India, and the USA. I just love meeting and working with people from all over the world!
Click Here For More Info:- https://www.fbalzan.com/
Location:- Malta
Social Media Profile Links:-
https://www.facebook.com/frankbalzanphotography/
https://www.instagram.com/frankbalzan/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7YIRUqFvDIef_kER_NwnCA
https://www.pinterest.com/frankbalzan/
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