Photo. It was
strange walking in
these parallel poles at Clapham Junction near Busket Gardens, near the Dingli
Cliffs. © Travel Explorations.
The cart ruts are from Malta`s prehistoric period. The are found throughout
the islands. In April and May this year (2006) I had the great pleasure to
admire the cart ruts in the sunset. By watching them in real made me even more
confused. And all information I have carefully studied, didn`t give me
convincing answers either. It was fascinating, but at the same time very
mysterious. Of course I like to understand why these tracks where made. In the
coming articles I will explain more about the cart ruts.
It was annonced in October 2004 that some new light would
be sheded on the mysterious cart ruts found all over Malta. A scientific
research was establish find out more about these myseries tracks cut into
rocks: why, when and how where these enigmatic routes used. Heritage Malta was appointed as the Project Leader in
the Culture 2000 project entitled "The significance of cart-ruts in
ancient landscapes". This is the first time that Malta
is a project leader in such a project.
During the launch of the project it was announced that there are two
international partners involved: Faculty of Environmental Sciences University of
Urbino Italy, and APROTECO: association for economic development of Valley of
Lecrin, Granada Spain. Local partners are the National Museum of
Archaeology, Restoration Unit, MEPA and the University of Malta. The project
will cost 296,906 Euros, and 49 per cent of it was partly funded by the European
Commission. What did they found out about the huge mystery?
The cart ruts of Ghar il-Kbir, at Clapham Junction, Rabat Malta covering an
area of about 250,000 square metres and Camino des los Molinos, Padul, Granada
Spain were chosen for the study. These two sites will be compared to each other
in the study.
A technology developed by a team of Italian experts from the University of
Urbino will be used to document the cart-ruts and the surrounding landscape
found in the Malta and Spain.
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Photo. Stein Morten from the global travel
guide Travel Explorations, enjoys his explorations of Malta`s many ancient
wonders and mysteries.
Malta has many great things to offer adventure
travellers. Even Malta consist of three small islands, it take a long time to explore all the amazing
sites.
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Coming up with more reports from own explorations and other
expeditions soon.
Stein Morten Lund, 5 May 2006
Additional information
In the coming weeks
Travel Explorations will publish several articles in both English and Norwegian
about Malta.
We will also go back for more explorations in Malta in the autumn 2006.
Tour operats who would like to offer their tours options are welcome to
contacts us on e-mail: stein@travelexplorations.com
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