Malta’s cart ruts cut deep into bedrock, cross in networks and run into the …
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Mdina was Malta’s capital for millennia and now has 300 residents. Phoenician, Roman Melite, …
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Malta
Valletta: The Fortress City the Knights Built After the Great Siege of 1565
By Greig Santos-Buch 114 ViewsValletta was built by the Knights of St John after surviving the 1565 siege. …
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Hagar Qim and Mnajdra are older than Stonehenge, and Mnajdra South still marks the …
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Malta
Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum: How to Get Tickets to Malta’s Underground Temple
By Greig Santos-Buch 94 ViewsThe Hal Saflieni Hypogeum holds 7,000 Neolithic dead beneath a Maltese suburb. What’s actually …
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Scandinavia
Denmark’s Viking Sites: Jelling’s Rune Stones, Roskilde’s Ships and Tollund Man
By Greig Santos-Buch 71 ViewsThe best historical and Viking sites in Denmark: the Jelling rune stones, the Skuldelev …
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Scandinavia
Viking and Ancient Sites in Scandinavia: A Country-by-Country Trip Planner
By Greig Santos-Buch 129 ViewsWhere to find the best historical and archaeological sites across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland …
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Greece
Ithaca: Was This Really Odysseus’s Home? The Evidence, and How to Visit
By Emily MacArthur 169 ViewsVisit Ithaca, the journey’s end of Homer’s Odyssey and home of Odysseus: the homecoming …
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Greece
Corfu’s Odyssey Connection: Paleokastritsa, the Petrified Ship and Nausicaa’s Shore
By Emily MacArthur 253 ViewsVisit Corfu, the Odyssey’s island of the Phaeacians: Paleokastritsa and the petrified-ship legend, the …
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Malta
Calypso’s Cave on Gozo: The Cave Is Closed, Here’s What to See Instead
By Emily MacArthur 164 ViewsVisit Gozo, identified as Calypso’s island of Ogygia where Odysseus spent seven years: Calypso’s …