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| The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Temples of Malta Europe's Oldest Buildings are found in Malta Xaghra Stone Circle An underground cemetary, set inside a system of natural caves, just below the surface of the hill-top overlooking Ggantija, some 300 metres to its west. The cemetary was formalised by a boundary of megalithic and interlocking standing stones [hence its name], with a monumental entrance on the eastern side facing the Ggantija temples. In the centre of Xaghra there would have been a large space for the arrangement of a circle of monumental standing stones – below ground level. The wall itself has since disappeared, and the only evidence is from documentation surviving from the late 18th and early 19th centuries – descriptions, engravings and watercolours.
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