Heritage

From left to right: Alessia Deguara, Luke Azzopardi, Matthew Joseph Casha, Trevor Borg and Ramona Depares. Photos: Open Square/Arts Council Malta

Malta to exhibit at prestigious London Design Biennale

Event will take place in June at Somerset House

March 11, 2023| Daniel Tihn
Heritage Malta said the student, 18, caused irreparable damage.

Student fined €15,000, handed suspended sentence over Ġgantija damage

Heritage Malta said security guard caught him engraving letters on a main doorway

March 7, 2023| Times of Malta
From left, Rev. John Muscat (Paola Lourdes parish priest), Pierre Bugeja (head conservator), Miguel Borg (chief risk officer at BOV) admiring the restored painting. Photos: BOV

Conserving the artistic heritage of our churches

Cremona's 'Our Lady of Lourdes with Angels and Saints' at the Paola parish church restored

March 5, 2023| Joseph Agius
The State Bedroom, with its bed, is pictured at the Palace of Westminster in London on February 9, 2023. Photos: Daniel Leal / AFP

King size? Long-lost bed might finally serve UK monarch

The regal crib was lost for decades but is ready for service after a remarkable journey

March 5, 2023| AFP
The Kalkara local council says the new application should be refused to protect the cart ruts.

Fresh attempt to encroach onto Kalkara cart ruts’ buffer zone

Developer wants to increase space for an adjacent development

March 4, 2023| Jessica Arena
Palazzina D’Amico, in Triq Norfolk c/w Triq Sir Adrian Dingli, Sliema. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier

Landmark building on Sliema's Dingli Street to rise two more floors

NGO aghast at decision to approve 'shocking' permit for Palazzina D'Amico

March 4, 2023| Times of Malta
This handout picture taken on January 24 and released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities on March 2 shows a hidden passage inside Egypt's Great Pyramid. Photo: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/AFP

Egypt unveils hidden corridor in Giza pyramid

Tunnel could be protecting the burial chamber of King Khufu

March 3, 2023| AFP
The interior of the newly-restored oratory. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier

€1.25m restoration works on Jesuit Church oratory completed

The oratory dates back to the 17th century

March 1, 2023| Neville Borg
DLĦ has for some time been seeking guardianship of the medieval chapel of San Ċir. Photo: DLĦ

Bureaucratic delays putting heritage sites at risk

NGO urges the government to conclude guardianship deeds

February 25, 2023| Times of Malta
Rużar Briffa (1906-1963)

Remembering Rużar Briffa 60 years from his death

Author dedicates book to the poet and doctor who cured him when still a boy

February 22, 2023| Paul P. Borg
Ġgantija temples were among the sites included on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1980, along with Valletta and the Hypogeum. Photo: shutterstock.com

Protecting our world heritage – Mgr Joe Vella Gauci

Malta’s World Heritage Technical Committee has always discussed the protection of sites in a professional manner

February 21, 2023| Mgr Joe Vella Gauci
The sculpture ‘Pieta with Donors, Pons de Gontaut and his brother Armand, Bishop of Sarlat’, created in Biron, Dordogne, France around the year 1515. Photos: The MET/AFP

NY Met to let French make 3D copies of two 16th-century sculptures

For nearly 400 years, the originals graced the chapel of the Biron chateau in the Dordogne

February 20, 2023| AFP
In 2021, environmental NGOs raised concerns that an application in Gozo would impact the Urban Conservation Area of the village because of its size and design and would create a blank party wall facing the Ġgantija temples. Artist's impression: PA

Architects' chamber issues rules for projects close to megalithic temples

Disciplinary action ranges from simple admonition to suspension of warrant

February 20, 2023| Times of Malta
Local heritage NGO Assoċjazzjoni Wirt il-Kalkara said it had spent four years warning ministers about the dilapidated state of the building and its surrounding walls. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier

Storm Helios damage: funds sought to repair historic wall

The rock crumbled into the sea due to heavy rainfall and gale force winds

February 17, 2023| Matthew Xuereb
A view of Mdina

Sale of paintings that recapture the beauty of old Malta and Gozo

Thirty landscapes by artist Frank Schembri

February 16, 2023| Times of Malta
Historian and academic Henry Frendo. Photo: Jonathan Borg

Historian Henry Frendo donates documents to National Archives

Professor thanked for research papers, photos and audio recordings

February 15, 2023| Times of Malta
Workers onsite at the Victoria Lines restoration in Għargħur. Photos: Jonathan Borg.

Blame vandals and urgent repairs for pace of Victoria Lines works - architect

Minister defends pace of works, which will take 22 more months for 200m

February 13, 2023| James Cummings
The prehistoric megalithic complex of Ġgantija is older than famous Stonehenge. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Is this progress? – Anna Marie Galea

Progress appears to be being made in the wrong direction

February 12, 2023| Anna Marie Galea
Army lift away WW2 torpedo remnants from site where it washed ashore. Photo: AFM

World War Two torpedo, minus warhead, washed ashore in Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq

It posed no danger

February 11, 2023| Times of Malta
Left: Engine oil spilt on the Għajn Żnubber tower steps; right: the CCTV camera that was stolen a day prior. Photos: HPF Ranger Unit

Għajn Żnuber tower vandalised, a day after CCTV was disconnected

Police investigating vandalism

February 11, 2023| Daniel Tihn
Graphic: Christian Busuttil/Design Studio

Can these historical sites be saved?

One NGO says it is willing to protect these eight locations. Will authorities agree?

February 11, 2023| Sarah Carabott
The façade of the Collegiate Parish Church of St Paul's Shipwreck in Valletta will be restored. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier

Valletta mayor announces restoration of St Paul’s Shipwreck Church façade

Project for one of capital's oldest churches to include new lighting system

February 10, 2023| Times of Malta
A section of the Bighi peninsula wall crumbled into the sea.

Bighi peninsula wall beneath Heritage Malta HQ crumbles

Conservation agency assesses damage as heritage NGO says it was ignored

February 10, 2023| Times of Malta
The Peruvian sculpture seized by Swiss customs. Photos: Handout/Swiss Culture Minister/AFP

Swiss give 2,500-year-old stone sculpture back to Peru

The monolithic sculpture weighs almost 200 kilogrammes

February 8, 2023| AFP
The ruins of Ġgantija, a megalithic structure that is one of Malta’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Development in Ġgantija buffer zone suspended for heritage impact assessment

The study has been requested by UNESCO

February 8, 2023| Fiona Galea Debono
A section of restored machinery at Tal-Għaqba windmill.

Historic Naxxar windmill set to turn again

Tal-Għaqba windmill is having its machinery restored

February 7, 2023| Times of Malta
Significant damage has been noted at the citadel in the old city of Aleppo in Syria. Photo: Shutterstock

UNESCO sounds alarm over quake damage to Turkey, Syria heritage

Two sites sustain damage, at least three others affected

February 7, 2023| AFP
Works to the Għargħur section of the Victoria Lines have been going on since 2019. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli

Four years on, Victoria Lines restoration remains a works in progress

Għargħur residents speak of their frustration over slow pace of works

February 7, 2023| James Cummings
Jean de Valette has a monument in Valletta but we have no monument for Ġużeppi Callus, who was hanged by the grand master. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Discovering ourselves – Evarist Bartolo

We hardly know anything about our country’s history. It’s time to start asking questions about Malta and the Maltese

February 3, 2023| Evarist Bartolo
Ugliness in Safi. Photo: Astrid Vella

Heritage heresies – Astrid Vella

Developers are scraping the bottom of the dirty tricks barrel to obtain permits

January 29, 2023| Astrid Vella