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The Old Temples Study Foundation,
a U.S. non-profit 501c3
corporation,
has been supporting research and education related to
the prehistoric remains on Malta since 1994.
The operation of highly successful OTSF educational travel programming
in the
Maltese Islands has resulted in the usual economic benefit
of tourism.
Additionally, this non-profit foundation
has contributed over US$300,000 to the University of Malta,
an archaeology laboratory, various research projects, and
philanthropic conservation and heritage awareness
initiatives.
Focus is now being turned to bringing the
story
of the TEMPLE BUILDERS
to North America! |
American Linda Eneix and Josette Portelli
of Malta combined
their backgrounds in cultural tourism with a
desire to do something meaningful
for the UNESCO World Heritage of
the
prehistoric temples on Gozo and Malta.
Quietly, and without much fanfare, OTSF has been a visionary force
in fostering respect and consideration due both to an ancient people and to
the
World Heritage legacy that they left behind in the Mediterranean
thousands of years ago.
This material is
an unexploited illustration of ancient human development,
the true scope of which did not survive into
historic times
to be documented in any writing.
The Temple Culture of Neolithic Malta provides a singular
opportunity
to
peer more deeply into the remote past toward understanding
the
Neolithic Revolution and the time before history:
the pre-Islamic, pre-Christian, pre-Judaic,
pre-Canaanite world of
Mediterranean and Levantine civilization.
the world’s oldest monumental
architecture
complex iconography and artistic expressions
intact human burials with recoverable DNA
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