Sirius: The Star of the Maltese Temples

Thousands of years before the Egyptian pyramids were built, more than 60 temples were erected all over the Maltese islands, all in the same style and largely according to the same ground plan. These uniquely designed buildings, great ruins today, pose many riddles which have never been convincingly solved. Based on her recently published book Sirius: The Star of the Maltese Temples, Lenie Reedijk presents a compelling solution to the most urgent of these questions: Why did the Stone Age people in Malta build so many temples? And why do their orientations form two clear patterns, while no two of them point in exactly the same direction? Her new book is the result of decades of research. In it she reveals that the discovery of the astronomical purpose of the temples provides the elegant answer to nearly all of the riddles surrounding these mysterious ruins. She will also uncover the manoeuvrings that have taken place in Maltese archaeology in the past, which depreciated the place of the temples in human cultural history. Her work cogently counteracts these wrongdoings and challenges the conventional dating of Malta’s megalithic temple culture, pushing their dates back much further in time.


Born in the Netherlands, Lenie Reedijk is a juridical translator by profession. She lived in Malta from 1990 to 1996, which allowed her to follow closely the publications and fierce debates about Malta’s early human and temple culture that arose during those years. Lenie is the author of Archaeological Walks on Gozo (Malet Books 2009, 3rd edition to appear in 2020), and Sirius: The Star of the Maltese Temples (MaletBooks 2018). Lenie will be also be a guest speaker on Megalithomania’s Malta tour in March 2021. Her website is https://sirius-starofthemaltesetemples.com.

Megalithomania Malta and Gozo Videos:
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Tarxien Temples - https://youtu.be/2N1K_AJdueQ
Cart Ruts part 1 - https://youtu.be/kDMCgEw-W_k
Cart Ruts part 2 - https://youtu.be/zhQW4Q-w-xU
Ggantija, Gozo - https://youtu.be/fQeRmkdLpx8
2021 Tour Promo video - https://youtu.be/7SNU_ToZISg

Filmed at the Origins Conference, Steiner House, London on November 16th. http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/origins.html

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