Exposure to rain and salt air, combined with vibrations from nearby quarries, have weakened foundations and walls. Given limited funding the Maltese government has made available only a small portion of the resources necessary for conservation and protection. They now belong to all of humanity and not only to the Maltese, to whose care they have been entrusted thru historic coincidence. Most remarkably the huge sub-continent of India has twenty one world heritage sites to its credit, while minuscule Malta boasts eight, including its Renaissance capital city of Valletta. In no other country on planet earth are so many treasures of global significance to be found, sited within a radius of some six miles from one another.
Conventional wisdom says there is little more to be found than what is already known.
Still odd scraps keeping surfacing which may give way to new detections. In an island like no other, where there are more buried historic artifacts per square inch than elsewhere on earth, it is more probable than possible that other unknown archeological treasures await those in search of wonderment. The temple sites are ancient Malta's contribution to man's ingenuity and application of evolutionary construction skills in early architecture. As an appreciative son of Malta domiciled abroad, I sense an obligation to make people worldwide aware of the significant impact Mediterranean countries, big and small, have contributed towards the evolution of western civilization. Malta lies at the center of this huge inland sea surrounded by Europe to its North, Africa to its South and Asia to its East.