Malta Before History
Author | : Daniel Cilia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Antiquities, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : 9789990985085 |
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Author | : Daniel Cilia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Antiquities, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : 9789990985085 |
Author | : Carmel Cassar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David H. Trump |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The large stone temple structures on Malta are amongst the earliest such constructions in the world, long before the pyramids were built in Egypt. This super book forms a pictorial record of all the temples on Malta, whilst also providing background information on the social and cultural history of the period. Built between c.3500 and 2500 BC, the temples reflect, and were part of, a period of great development on Malta and Gozo, especially in artistic and architectural terms. This is a clear, well illustrated account of the temple-building period, as well as of what went before and what came after.
Author | : Emma Mattei |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2011-01-09 |
Genre | : Gozo Island (Malta) |
ISBN | : 9789990985504 |
Author | : Davide Tanasi |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2020-08-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789694949 |
This collection of essays provides a reassessment of the multifaceted evidence which emerged from excavations carried out in 1909 and 1959 in the settlement of Bahrija, both largely unpublished until now. Bahrija is a key site for understanding the later stages of Maltese prehistory before the beginning of the Phoenician colonial period.
Author | : Ernle Bradford |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1497617308 |
The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire’s Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had expanded his empire from western Asia to southeastern Europe and North Africa. To secure control of the Mediterranean between these territories and launch an offensive into western Europe, Suleiman needed the small but strategically crucial island of Malta. But Suleiman’s attempt to take the island from the Holy Roman Empire’s Knights of St. John would emerge as one of the most famous and brutal military defeats in history. Forty-two years earlier, Suleiman had been victorious against the Knights of St. John when he drove them out of their island fortress at Rhodes. Believing he would repeat this victory, the sultan sent an armada to Malta. When they captured Fort St. Elmo, the Ottoman forces ruthlessly took no prisoners. The Roman grand master La Vallette responded by having his Ottoman captives beheaded. Then the battle for Malta began in earnest: no quarter asked, none given. Ernle Bradford’s compelling and thoroughly researched account of the Great Siege of Malta recalls not just an epic battle, but a clash of civilizations unlike anything since the time of Alexander the Great. It is “a superior, readable treatment of an important but little-discussed epic from the Renaissance past . . . An astonishing tale” (Kirkus Reviews).
Author | : Carmel G. Bonavia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Malta |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geoff Bailey |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 2020-04-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030373673 |
This open access volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of Europe and the Mediterranean when sea levels were lower than present. These are the largest body of underwater finds worldwide, amounting to over 2500 find spots, ranging from individual stone tools to underwater villages with unique conditions of preservation. The material reviewed here ranges in date from the Lower Palaeolithic period to the Bronze Age and covers 20 countries bordering all the major marine basins from the Atlantic coasts of Ireland and Norway to the Black Sea, and from the western Baltic to the eastern Mediterranean. The finds from each country are presented in their archaeological context, with information on the history of discovery, conditions of preservation and visibility, their relationship to regional changes in sea-level and coastal geomorphology, and the institutional arrangements for their investigation and protection. Editorial introductions summarise the findings from each of the major marine basins. There is also a final section with extensive discussion of the historical background and the legal and regulatory frameworks that inform the management of the underwater cultural heritage and collaboration between offshore industries, archaeologists and government agencies. The volume is based on the work of COST Action TD0902 SPLASHCOS, a multi-disciplinary and multi-national research network supported by the EU-funded COST organisation (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). The primary readership is research and professional archaeologists, marine and Quaternary scientists, cultural-heritage managers, commercial and governmental organisations, policy makers, and all those with an interest in the sea floor of the continental shelf and the human impact of changes in climate, sea-level and coastal geomorphology.
Author | : Henry Seddall |
Publisher | : London, Chapman & Hall |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Malta |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Claudia Sagona |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107006694 |
This book synthesizes the archaeology of the Maltese archipelago from the first human colonization c. 5000 BC through the Roman period (c. 400 AD). Claudia Sagona interprets the archaeological record to explain changing social and political structures, intriguing ritual practices, and cultural contact through several millennia.