Heritage Malta is organising a seminar on the findings of a study on Skorba and Ta' Hagrat Temples both of which are found at Mgarr and are inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

The seminar will be held on Tuesday 22nd April 2008 at the Mgarr Primary School at 18.30. Admission is free of charge but those interested are requested to send an email to Ms Maria Elena Zammit on maria-elena.zammit@gov.mt or Ms Joanna Mallia on joanne.mallia@gov.mt.

The study is part of a project, part-financed by the European Union, Community Initiative Interreg IIIB, Archimed Programme in which are participating partners in Greece and Italy. The project which started in 2006 ends next May.

The project has four work-packages, the first of which deals primarily with Project Management. The second part of the project was dedicated to the cataloguing of the archaeological heritage in the areas designated by the project partners. The main activities of this part was the documentation of these sites and the publication of information gathered on an online map-based application which links information on the site to its geographical position. Malta focused its activities on the sites of Ta' Hagrat and Skorba as well as the archaeological sites in the wider Mgarr area which fall within the buffer zone of the two sites. Documentation included the cataloguing of information on the megalithic sites as well as various tombs, cart ruts and other archaeological sites in the vicinity as well as the creation of a three-dimensional model of the temples at Ta' Hagrat and Skorba.

The third part of the project was dedicated to the scientific study of the chosen sites by each project partner. As a result, Heritage Malta will be publishing a book containing papers on different aspects of the site including a contribution by Prof. David Trump, who excavated both Ta' Hagrat and Skorba in the early 1960s. Other papers include contributions by Heritage Malta curators on archaeological sites in the Mgarr area; the Ta' Hagrat excavation notes written by Dr. Temi Zammit in the 1920s; animal remains from Skorba; the use of technology in the study of the sites as well as their management and conservation. In addition, the publication will contain a catalogue of finds from both sites. Other contributors will be publishing studies on the flint remains from Skorba and the social background to the Ta'Hagrat and Skorba excavations.

The final part of the project consists of the dissemination of the project's results through a number of national and international activities. Heritage Malta is focusing its dissemination activities through the creation of informative panels to be affixed on site as well as leaflets with information on the two sites.