Essays on the Archaeology and Ancient History of the Maltese Islands: Bronze Age to Byzantine

This collection of essays, by leading scholar and academic Professor Mario Buhagiar, brings together in a single volume a select miscellany of studies which focus primarily on Bronze Age, Punico-Roman,
Early Christian and Byzantine archaeology and history filtered through a synthesis of the archaeological,
documentary, and art historical evidence. Its main strength is the contextualisation and informed analysis of the iconographic and artistic source material.
The essays include:
• The Fortified Bronze Age Settlements of the Maltese Islands
• Two Archaeological Sites: Ras ir-Raheb and Ras il-Wardija
• Roman Malta: A Review of the Archaeological Source Material
• The St Paul Shipwreck Controversy: An Assessment of the Source Material
• St Paul's Shipwreck and Early Christianity in Malta
• The Early Christian Cemeteries: An Overview
• The Bingemma Necropolis
• The Jesuits' Hill Archaeological Site on the Grand Harbour
• The Late Roman and Early Christian Hypogea of Tarxien and Casal Paola
• Late Roman and Early Christian Burial Sites in the Zebbiegh-Mgarr and Birkirkara-Has
Sajjied Districts
• The Funerary Triclinia of the Maltese Catacombs
• The Iconography of the Maltese Rock-Tombs: Romano-Punic, Early Christian and
Byzantine
• The Rock-Engravings and Architectural Decoration of the Romano-Punic and Early
Christian Hypogea
• The Xaghra ta' Santa Duminka Rock-Tombs: Reflections on Maltese Early Christian Art
• The Early Christian and Byzantine Site at Abbatija tad-Dejr: Archaeological and Art
Historical Insights
• The Jewish Catacombs of Roman Melite
• Early Christian and Byzantine Malta: Archaeological and Textual Considerations
• The Early Christian Remains at Tas-Silg and San Pawl Milqi: A Reconsideration of the
Archaeological Evidence
• Gozo in Late Roman, Byzantine and Muslim Times