Mediterranean Institute
of Ancient Civilizations

An International Multi-Disciplinary Group
with Focus on Human Development
in the Mediterranean, Europe and the Levant

The conference originally planned for November 2010 is expected to be redefined and rescheduled.

Please check back for new details.

Island of Malta
home to the world's oldest buildings

new dates and info
to be advised

ARCHAEOACOUSTICS:
SPACES and SOUND
in the ANCIENT WORLD
bringing a new dimension to what we know about our past

in collaboration with

The Mediterranean Institute
University of Malta
http://www.um.edu.mt


Oracle Chamber in Malta's Hypogeum Deliberate Prehistoric Sound Amplifier?	The Oracle Stone at Delphi Listening at the Navel of the Earth?	The Shofar Ritual wake up call?	Human brain stimulated by sound at 110 hz	Newgrange, Ireland A megalithic Sound Chamber?
Extract from the May 1920 edition of National Geographic Magazine, describing the "Oracle Chamber" of Malta's Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, ca. 3,300 BCE: "A word spoken in this room is magnified a hundredfold and is audible throughout the entire structure. The effect upon the credulous can be imagined when the oracle spoke and the words came thundering forth through the dark and mysterious place with terrifying impressiveness."

Read the summary from the last conference!