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The conference scheduled 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 standing

 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

 

Sound off for the New Year

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!  EMPTC Summary

More on Archaeoacoustics in Malta  Archaeoacoustics

 

 


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