And here's the thing, Ġgantija isn'tMalta's only megalithic temple. Across Malta's two...
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And here's the thing, Ġgantija isn't
Malta's only megalithic temple. Across Malta's two main islands, archaeologists have uncovered
19 such ancient structures, all on a land mass
half the size of Chicago, with the oldest, so we are told,
being Ġgantija itself. For such tiny islands,
that's a lot of temples requiring a lot of man power. Too much. Which forces me to question
who really built Ġgantija and when? Does it make sense that those people
with a very simple material culture could have been responsible for creating
the largest, most magnificent, most complex structure on Malta?
Malta's only megalithic temple. Across Malta's two main islands, archaeologists have uncovered
19 such ancient structures, all on a land mass
half the size of Chicago, with the oldest, so we are told,
being Ġgantija itself. For such tiny islands,
that's a lot of temples requiring a lot of man power. Too much. Which forces me to question
who really built Ġgantija and when? Does it make sense that those people
with a very simple material culture could have been responsible for creating
the largest, most magnificent, most complex structure on Malta?
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And here's the thing,
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Ġgantija isn't
Malta's only megalithic temple.
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Across Malta's two main islands,
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archaeologists have uncovered
19 such ancient structures,
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all on a land mass
half the size of Chicago,
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with the oldest, so we are told,
being Ġgantija itself.
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For such tiny islands,
that's a lot of temples
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requiring a lot of man power.
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Too much.
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Which forces me to question
who really built Ġgantija and when?
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Does it make sense that those people
with a very simple material culture
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could have been responsible for creating
the largest, most magnificent,
00:00:46.421 --> 00:00:48.646
most complex structure on Malta?
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What if everything we know about prehistory is wrong? Journalist Graham Hancock visits archaeological sites around the world investigating if a civilization far more advanced than we ever believed possible existed thousands of yea...
