Skorba Temples

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.

Entire Skorba Temple