Malta, officially called Repubblika ta' Malta, Republic of Malta in English, is an island of southern Europe and a member of the European Union.
It is an archipelago located in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Maltese Channel, about 80Km from Sicily, 284Km from Tunisia, and 333Km from Lybia. Malta is comprised within the physical region of Italy. Its extension is of 316Km2, which makes it one of the smallest and most densely populated states of the world. The capital city is Valletta, the most populous is Birkirkara. The main island features a great number of cities that, along with Valletta, accounts for a total of 400,000 people.
Malta has two official languages: Maltese and English. The Italian was the official language up to 1934, but it is still widely spoken (more than 66% of Maltese people speaks it fluently, 17% knows its basic grammar); the Italian is taught in every school of Malta and utilized in commercial, touristic, and school businesses. Malta has always had strong ties with Sicily, including knowledge of Sicilian dialect. The old generations of Maltese still pass down customs, proverbs, idioms, and poems from Trinacria. Many family names have Sicilian roots.
Historically the geographical position of Malta gave prominence to the archipelago which was dominated, in sequence, by Phoenicians, Greek, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Norsemen, Aragonese, Knights of Malta, French, and the British.
Three sites in Malta have been declared World Heritage by UNESCO. They are: the city of Valletta, the Hal Saflieni Hypogaeum, and the Megalithic Temples. Malta joined the European Union on may 1, 2004 and is part of the Eurozone since January 1, 2008. Malta is also a member of the Commonwealth.
Malta hosts one of the most ancient – if not the most ancient – Megalithic civilization in the world; it is an island considered magical by Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Greek alike. It might also be one of the remnants of the lost continent of Atlantis.

The X-Plan Group has planned a series of investigations in Malta, to collect past and present data about this very ancient and enigmatic island of the Mediterranean Sea.

THE SKULLS OF THE MOTHER GODDESS

Skulls of men who possessed and extraordinary cranial volume have been found within the megalithic temple of Hal Saflieni. Those skulls seemed to belong to lost race of priest identified with the cult of the serpent, and that could represent an ideal link between the Mesopotamian and the Egyptian cultures.
Until 1985 a good number of skulls from the Taxien, Ggantja, and Hal Saflieni temples were displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Valletta, the State capital; but later on they were removed and locked in a storage.
The only sources which prove the existence of the skulls come from Professors Anton Mifsud and Charles Savona Ventura, who possess photographic documentation and conducted a detailed study upon these anomalous skulls.
Various hypotheses have been formulated, from a pathological deformity to genetic mutation. The age of the skulls is estimated to be about 5,000 years (circa 3,000 BC). The most extraordinary of these skulls is the one called Dolichocephalic Skull, from its excessively elongated rear part. This skull also has the “Sagitta” missing.
Doctors and Anatomists talk of an “impossible” and unprecedented case in the International medical literature.
The islands of Malta and Gozo were important religious centers in Prehistoric times, where medical sciences and oracles were practiced, and ritualistic meetings with the priests of the Mother Goddess occurred. A number of sanctuaries and healing centers were built. The serpent was associated to the Goddess and the healing process; but the serpent belongs also to the underworld, thus an hypogaeum dedicated to the Mother Goddess and to the cult of the water was the most suitable place for a group of priests which was known as “The Priests Serpents” by the other ancient cultures.

Maltese archaeologists Anthony Buonanno an Mark Anthony Mifsud said that:

“They [the Dolichocephalic Skulls] belong to a different race, although neither DNA nor Radiocarbon tests have been made. Maybe these priests came from Sicily”

Other skulls present artificial deformities caused by surgical operations. About 7,000 skulls in total were found in the Hal Saflieni Hypogaeum.
The ethnic group that performed such interventions was the same that built the giant temples dedicated to the Mother Goddess between 4,100 and 2,500 BC; it was a race that never blended with the local population and which favored intermarriages in order to preserve the purity their offspring. This inevitably led to a weakening of the genetic make-up, and the stemming of generic deformities.

Year 2,500 BC marks the end of the megalithic history of Malta. After that, 300 years of anthropological darkness ensue, with no human settlements until the arrival of the Phoenicians (which, incidentally, also built temples dedicated to their Great Mother [Astarte], depicted with a serpent face).
Malta bears many notable resemblances with Ancient Egypt: In the Lower Egypt the symbol of the Pharaoh was a bee called “Bit”; the ancient name of Malta, “Melita”, comes from the Latin and means “honey”. Malta's symbol was a bee with its hexagonal cells. The word “Melita” has its origin in the root “Mel” or “Mer”, which in Ancient Egypt was the name attributed to the Pyramids.
Geologically, Malta is a platform originated by a lifting of the marine floor, and showed more than one time its tendency to submerge. The 35 prehistoric temples distributed between the two main islands of Malta and Gozo, and many others currently resting under the water are possible signs of a catastrophe that could have hit the area about 3,000-2,500 BC.
According to local archaeologists such catastrophe could have originated the legend of Atlantis. The cause could have been a strong earthquake causing the rotation of Malta's axis around itself, submerging part of the coast facing Sicily. This could also explain the sudden disappearance of the civilization which erected the giant temples dedicated to the Mother Goddess, and that perhaps was the same civilization of the mysterious Dolichocephalic priests, the “Priests Serpents”.

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