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catacomb structure. The site was eventually saved from development, with the building permit issued on the basis of wrong data being rescinded. In 2019, public authorities bought up €400,000 worth of land in the area through expropriation to aid the protection of the site. Authorities are working on cleaning and improving access to the site, with further excavations not being excluded.
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were chiselled down, while the floor was lowered by several metres to form two interlinking and split-level halls. Luckily, however, the ceiling preserves enough information to permit a reliable reconstruction of the hypogeum’s original set-up. This resulting peculiar configuration is, in turn,
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of 1925. By then, however, the surviving remains were already in an abandoned and poor state. Għar Gerduf suffered substantial mutilation during the second half of the nineteenth century. Almost all the internal wall partitions aligning the
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are hewn into the walls. These vary in size, some having one trough-tomb, others having from three to five. Four of these tombs with headrests can still be identified.
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are underground while the one at Għar Għerduf is in a cave above ground with many passageways hewn into the rock. Of these passageways only one remains"
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