Skorba Temples

The Skorba Temples are megalithic remains on the northern edge of Zebbiegh in Malta, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 as part of the Megalithic Temples of Malta. Excavated by archaeologist David Trump in the early 1960s using modern dating techniques, the site revealed two temples: a larger three-apse temple from the Ggantija phase (3600-3200 BC) and a smaller four-apse temple from the Tarxien phase (3150-2500 BC). Finds include female figurines, goat skulls indicating fertility rituals, pottery, stone tools, animal bones, and cereal seeds, providing crucial evidence of Neolithic domestic life and the earliest settlement phases of the Maltese Islands.