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Malta is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, consisting of the islands of Malta, Gozo, Comino, Manoel Island, Cominotto, Filfla, Fungus Rock and Saint Paul's Islands. The capital of Malta is Valletta. Sightseeing in Malta: Sliema and St. Julians, St. Paul's Bay, Mellieha (near Popey's Village), Medina (old city walls and close to the 253-metre-high Dingli cliffs by the sea), Valletta (old cathedral, the Grandmaster palace, Barraca, the National Archaeological Museum and the National Museum of Fine Arts), the island of Gozo (with the towns of Victoria / Rabat, Xlendi and the Azure Window consisting of a limestone arch over the water) and the island of Comino.

Archaeology literally means the teachings or knowledge of the old or ancient (archaios is Greek for 'old' and logos means' knowledge '). The archaeology deals with physical remnants of past human activities. On this basis, the archaeologist trying to understand something of the manner in which people previously lived. Material things are remnants may: tools, weapons, coins, bricks. It may contain residues of the people themselves as skeletons, mummies or the ash of burnt bones. Of remains of animals or plants that the man had something to do.

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