When the eminent Maltese historian Sir Temi Żammit excavated the nearby temples of Ta' Ħaġrat, only a single upright slab protruded from a small mound of debris on the Skorba site.

[1] East of this temple, a second monument was added in the Tarxien phase, with four apses and a central niche.

[5] For a period of roughly twelve centuries before the temples were built, a village already stood on the site.

Its oldest extant structure is the eleven metre long straight wall to the west of the temples’ first entrance.

[6] Deposits at its base contained material from the first known human occupation of the island, the Għar Dalam phase, including charcoal, which carbon analysis dated to 4850 BC.