Associated with fertility rituals, Ħaġar Qim temple in Malta is one of the most ancient religious sites on Earth dating from about 3500 BC. The complex contains the main temple with many oval interconnected rooms and three additional megalithic structures. The temple’s facade contains a trilithon entrance, that is, a structure consisting of two large vertical stone blocks supporting the third one set arranged horizontally.
The rooms with apses in Hagar Qim were probably topped with a roof formed by stone slabs lying one upon the other and overhanging the one below. One of the rooms contains a hole in a stone block. It is aligned to the sun's rays on the Summer solstice. Another chamber has a block with a rectangular window-like aperture dividing the room into two parts. A small room on the other side of the opening contained bones of animals, presumably from the sacrifices. There is no evidence that the prehistoric people who lived here practiced any form of cannibalism or human sacrifices.
