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Updated:  Malta’s 6,000-Year-Old Hypogeum –
Built to Alter Minds with Sound? 

© 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe

“There is a niche carved at the back of the Hypogeum oracle room
chamber that seems like a deliberate amplification channel for throwing sound.”

-Linda Eneix, Founder, Mediterranean Inst. of Ancient Civilizations

The Oracle Room has a powerful acoustic resonance in the
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum of Paola, Malta, the only prehistoric underground
temple in the world dated to about 6,000 years old. Hypogeum means
“underground” in Greek. Image © by Linda Eneix, OTS Foundation.

The island complex of Malta (red circle) is in the Mediterranean Sea 176 miles east
of Tunisia in North Africa on the lower left. The tip of Italy (Palermo highlighted) upper right.

Updated May 6, 2012 / Original April 27, 2012   Sarasota, Florida – At the center of the Mediterannean Sea between Palermo at the tip of Italy and Tunisia in northern Africa is an ancient island complex known as Malta. It’s entire land mass is only 122 square miles, making it one of the world’s smallest states. About 6,000 years ago, people there built extraordinary megaliths and temples, including the world’s oldest known freestanding structure completely underground known as the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum.

The underground temple is carved out of rock as if in the negative of a surface structure that would be constructed in air. Recent research suggests that the massive, elegantly constructed Hypogeum was made specifically to vibrate with certain frequencies.

Popular Archaeology in its March 5, 2012, issue reports, “This structure is unique in that it is subterranean, created through the removal of an estimated 2,000 tons of stone. Low voices within its walls create eerie, reverberating echoes, and a sound made of words spoken in certain places can be clearly heard throughout all of its three levels. Now, scientists are suggesting that certain sound vibration frequencies created when sound is emitted within its walls are actually altering human brain functions of those within earshot.”

Central hall of Malta’s Hal Saflieni Hypogeum. This room usually photographs
as if it were shot with a fish-eye lens, but it is the way it was cut -with bulging walls
and a round recessed ceiling. Another finely carved room known as the Holy of Holies
is visible through the window opening. Image by OTS Foundation.

Malta’s Hypogeum “Oracle Room” where a male voice speaking “vibrates other minds”
in the larger chamber at 110-111 Hertz. Image by Linda Eneix, OTS Foundation.

Photograph taken in the Malta Hypogeum “Oracle Room” that has odd spirals on the ceiling
was printed in the May 1920, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Article and photos by R. Ellis, Lt. Tickle and William Arthur Griffiths.

Linda Eneix, Mediterranean Inst. of Ancient Civilizations:  “The above photo of the Oracle Chamber was taken by R. Ellis and Lieutenant Tickle, originally published with an article by William Arthur Griffiths in the National Geographic Magazine of May 1920.  That was the last time National Geographic covered Malta’s temples. Quote from that 1920 article:   ‘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.’”

Other research at New Grange in the U. K. and in Peru also indicates that stone structures there emitted certain frequencies to affect human listeners – perhaps to alter minds with sounds as the Malta Hypogeum seems to now in the present and most likely in the past.

Recently I talked with Linda Eneix, Founder of the Old Temple Study Foundation (OTSF) and the Mediterranean Institute of Ancient Civilizations in Sarasota, Florida. Linda first visited the Malta Hypogeum in 1990 and was haunted by its beauty and the unusual sound quality. I asked her what surprised her the most in her first visit and provoked Linda to found the Old Temple Study Foundation four years later in 1994.

Interview:

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Linda Eneix, Founder, Old Temple Study Foundation and Mediterranean Institute of Ancient Civilizations, Sarasota, Florida:  “Without question, it has to be the Hypogeum because the sound quality there is exactly what it was 6,000 years ago. That’s as close as we are ever going to come to hear the ancient world.

When I found myself in the first of these megalithic temples, my jaw dropped and I was grabbing the sides of my face saying, ‘How is it possible that we don’t know anything about this?’ Because I had been exposed to such things around the world that I knew it was authentic. Here I am on the original pavements with walls surrounding me and these carved stones with relief carvings in about 20 different kinds of spirals – just absolutely, I don’t know what to call it – I have no words! And it grabbed me then and it hasn’t let go since. I didn’t choose it. It chose me, but my life became wrapped around it.

I was impressed with the antiquities and the fact that the Malta underground architecture is the oldest freestanding buildings in the world and they remain that. The oldest, according to the text books, is the Ggantija temples on the Maltese island of Gozo, which dates to about 3,700 B. C.

Ggantija (Giants’ Tower) is a Neolithic, megalithic temple complex on the Mediterranean
island of Gozo. The Ggantija temples are the earliest of a series of megalithic temples
in Malta. Their makers erected the two Ggantija temples during the Neolithic Age
(c. 3600-2500 BC), which makes these temples more than 5500 years old and the
world’s second oldest manmade religious structures, after Gobekli Tepe,
Turkey. Image © 2004 by Daniel Hausner.

[ Editor’s Note:  Wikipedia – “Gozo is a small island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea that has been inhabited since 5,000 B. C. The island is part of the Southern European country of Malta; after the island of Malta itself, it is the second-largest island in the archipelago. Compared to its southeastern neighbor, Gozo is more rural and known for its scenic hills, which are featured on its coat of arms. The island of Gozo has long been identified as Ogygia, the domain of the nymph Calypso in Homer’s Odyssey. Calypso, possessed of great supernatural powers, holds Odysseus captive for a number of years because of her love for him before releasing him to continue his journey home.” ]

 

SO ALMOST 6,000 YEARS AGO?

Almost.

IS THAT THE PARTICULAR TEMPLE THAT YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES HAVE DISCOVERED A LINK BETWEEN HOW THEY WERE BUILT AND THE STRUCTURE AND SOUND?

Not in particular that one. And it gets a bit complicated, I’ll try to explain. This monumental building in large stone as it occurred in Malta was a phenomenon that went on for more than 1,000 years. There are more than 23 sites on the island where there are remains of these temple structures standing above ground and they are in various states of repair. But what really triggered this research is an underground site of the same time period, the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, which is architecture in the negative cut from the solid bedrock. An estimated 2,000 tons of stone were removed to create these chambers that were closed in antiquity. At the end of the temple period the Hypogeum was, for whatever reason, sealed and remained that way until 1902.

CAN YOU GIVE US YOUR FIRST HAND FIRST EXPERIENCE IN THE HYPOGEUM?

My first visit was in 1990. There was nobody there, no guards, no nothing, and we went in on our own and just explored. And even for me, just knowing the age just knowing the age of the space and that there were people living and breathing in these same spaces 5-6,000 years ago was enough to get my radar working. Someone demonstrated the behavior of a male voice in what’s known as the Oracle Chamber. And I was told the legend and the theory that a male voice will carry through the whole Hypogeum and a female voice doesn’t do it.

THE ORACLE’S POSITION, IS IT A CARVED OUT VERY SPECIFIC PLACE IN THE HYPOGEUM?

Yes. There is a niche carved at the back of this chamber that looks to me to be a deliberate amplification channel for throwing the sound. It seems to me that they took advantage when they were cutting these chambers, they took advantage of natural faults in the limestone, and also of the way they could get the sound to move where they wanted it.

HOW DID THEY KNOW THAT?

Good question! My own theory is that it was part of a school of knowledge that was handed down. Perhaps as a very distant myth by the time they got it. But there are some very interesting parallels in Malta. You can see them side-by-side in caves and ceiling configurations in the caves which then sort of evolved into underground tombs, which then became the Hypogeum, which then became architecture created from scratch in the above ground temples.

Gobekli Tepe, Turkey:  12,000 Years Old

IF THERE WAS SOME OLDER KNOWLEDGE THAT WAS THEN APPLIED TO MALTA, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE NOW ARE SHIFTING BACK 12,000 YEARS AGO TO WHOEVER, HOWEVER, THE GOBEKLI TEPE SITE IN TURKEY WAS BUILT IN WHICH THE GERMAN ARCHEOLOGIST DOING VERY CAREFUL CARBON DATING SAYS THAT THE PILLARS WERE FIRST ERECTED 12,000 YEARS AGO. THAT MEANS THAT THERE HAD TO BE SOPHISTICATED INTELLIGENCE OPERATING BEFORE 12,000 YEARS AGO. [ See Archive 10110 Gobekli Tepe Earthfiles.]

12,000-year-old circles of limestone columns weighing from 7 to 15 tons or more
have been excavated in Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, about 6 miles northeast of Urfa near the Syrian
border. Older than Egypt, Sumeria and Stonehenge, 40 standing T-shaped columns have
so far been uncovered in four circles 98 feet (30 meters) in diameter. To date, no metal tools
have been found since the meticulous excavation and dating began in 1994. Only 5% of the temple
complex in repeating circles has been uncovered. Image © 2008 by Haldun Aydingun.

Absolutely, you don’t do something like that just by getting a bright idea. You have to organize people, you have to think through every step of the engineering, the quarrying, the transporting, the “how are we going to fit these,” in what configuration do we want them in? These are huge stones! You don’t decide once you get there where you’re going to put it.

U. K.’s Stonehenge:
Concave Pillars – To Reflect Sound?

Historic photograph included in Stonehenge © 1956 by R.J.C. Atkinson, 225 annotated
photographs tracing the research, excavations and restoration work
since 1901, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.

There’s a study in the UK that points out some of the sarsen stones at Stonehenge are carved to be concave perhaps to reflect sound? There’s nothing written and it’s all speculation. Science is all we have to reconstruct this, along with maybe some common sense. Because if I were totally uneducated about anything and I came across stones that played with different pitches when I hit them with something, I would think that was pretty awesome, and I would play with it. And if I found a cave that had a wonderful echo affect, I would be paying attention to what was in that chamber and what was common with other chambers where there was this echo affect.

The waters are deep for trying to make connections between megalithic stone constructions that are so similar on Malta and Anatolia, the western two-thirds of Turkey, where Gobekli Tepe was built 12,000 years ago; or between the Sardinia islands west of the Italian mainland and Menorca west of Sardinia; or Portugal and the British Isles.

Stonehenge sarsen stone circle in southern England (upper left circle);
Portugal (lower left circle); Menorca west of Sardinia in Tyrrhenian region
of Mediterranean Sea; Island of Malta (lowest red circle east of Tunisia);
and Urfa, Turkey, near site of Gobekli Tepe.

But the evidence adds up to at least some kind of knowledge that was handed off long ago. I think about Bronze Age people who hit the islands of Malta and discovered these temples still intact. They would have been impressed, I can tell you! But what was the sound in Malta then?

[ Editor’s Note:  The Bronze Age (3300 to 300 B. C.) is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. ]

 

Megalithic Stone Frequency Discoveries

It’s been found by a study of physics actually, that many of these chambers resonate at a certain frequency and create what’s known as a standing wave, which is a particular wave where the sound bounces back and covers itself.

The range for the megalithic stone structures of New Grange and Wayland Smithy in the U. K. – these enclosed passage tombs is between 90-120 Hz (hertz). This is within the range of a male voice. The Malta Hypogeum, it’s been found by some techno-savvy musicians, vibrates at the same frequency range, but principally it’s the 110-111 Hz range. That number seems to trigger brain activity in a particular way. Sound generated, even a tone with a headset, has been shown in the laboratory to change the brain activity shifting from the language center over to the other side of the brain and firing up the creative center in the part of the brain that deals with mood and emotional processing.

This 110 Hertz is equal to an A2 in music. It’s a bass baritone, it’s a very easy note for a baritone to achieve. Imagine singing or toning that note in a resonant chamber, getting all this sound bouncing off the stone walls, apparently was impacting on their brains whether they knew it or not.”

Why 110 Hz?

A study by Ian Cook in the March 2008 issue of Time and Mind, reported:  “In a pilot project, 30 healthy adults listened to tones at 90, 100, 110, 120, and 130 Hz while brain activity was monitored with electroencephalography (EEG). Activity in the left temporal region was found to be significantly lower at 110 Hz  than at other frequencies. Additionally, the pattern of asymmetric activity over the prefrontal cortex shifted from one of higher activity on the left at most frequencies to rightsided dominance at 110 Hz.

“These findings are compatible with relative deactivation of language centers and a shift in prefrontal activity that may be related to emotional processing. These intriguing pilot study findings suggest that the acoustic properties of ancient structures may influence human brain function, and suggest that chanting might have been used to enhance right brain activities.”

HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED WHEN YOU’VE BEEN THERE AND THERE’S BEEN AN EFFORT TO GENERATE AND MEASURE THE TONES AND SEE HOW YOU FELT?

That is part of the research that’s ongoing right now in Malta. The experience with voice is much different from an electrical tone because with voice you get harmonics. Sound varies enough that when the echo comes back, it’s very rich and very complex. I feel it in my bones – the sound in the Hypogeum is like standing inside a giant bell, the way this sound bounces  off the sides, and especially a low voice.

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ONE OF THE MORE PROFOUND IMPLICATIONS OF ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU’RE DOING IS THE BATON PASSING FROM A PREVIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND PUSHING BACK THE INTELLIGENCE ON THIS PLANET SO MUCH FURTHER THAN THE LINE DRAWN IN THE SUMERIAN SAND AT 5,000 YEAR. GOBEKLI PUSHES IT BACK TO 12,000 AND WHO KNOWS HOW MUCH FURTHER, AND WHAT WAS THE INTELLIGENCE THAT INSPIRED THE GREEKS?

I think since we came out of the trees, we’ve had some idea there’s something bigger than we are. But I think that we are so far removed from back then, it’s going to be very hard for us to suspend everything that we’ve learned since and get into the mind set of people who were part of nature, not dominating nature.

Acoustic Properties of Limestone

Limestone has particular acoustic properties, and the Greeks knew this. They chose limestone to line the seats in their amphitheaters because of its ability to transfer the sound. Where did they get that information? Maybe they found out for themselves, maybe they got it from somebody that came before them.

[ Editor’s Note:  In the April 2007 Journal of the Acoustics Society of America, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers reported what made the ancient limestone amphitheater of Epidaurus in Greece an acoustic marvel were the rows of limestone seats. “At Epidaurus the efficient acoustics filter low-frequency background noises like the murmur of a crowd and reflects the high-frequency noises of the performers on stage off the seats and back toward the seated audience member, carrying an actor’s voice all the way to the back rows of the theater. Frequencies up to 500 Hz were held back while frequencies above 500 Hz were allowed to ring out. The corrugated surface of the seats was creating an effect similar to the ridged acoustics padding on walls or insulation in a parking garage. The human brain is capable of reconstructing the missing human voice frequencies through a phenomenon called virtual pitch.” ]

Fourth century B. C. limestone theater at Epidaurus on the Peloponnese
in Greece where audiences in the back row were able to hear music and voices
with amazing clarity. Peloponnese is a large peninsula of southern Greece.
Image courtesy Georgia Institute of Technology.

THAT WE WOULD HAVE LIMESTONE STRUCTURES AND MARBLE STRUCTURES LONG AGO WHEN THE EMPHASIS PERHAPS OF INTELLIGENCE ON THIS PLANET WAS REVERBERATING SOUND, ECHOING SOUND, SOUNDS FOR SOME RELATIONSHIP TO THE UNSEEN AND THE DIVINE?

Speaking to God, the voice of the Earth. It just feels like stone is the bones of the Earth.

IS IT VIBRATING IN YOUR BONES?

I suppose because our bodies are so much water that they are going to feel this sound wave on some level. And that’s part of what we aim to find out with this research, which involves not only an EEG onsite, but also blood pressure, skin temperature, the whole bio-feedback range of things that we can do on site in the Hypogeum with the exposure to human voice right in that range of 110-111 hertz.”

More Information:

For further reports about stone circles, pyramids and ancient sites, please see reports below from Earthfiles Archive.

• 11/23/2011 — Greek Gods Were Extraterrestrials, Says Erich von Daniken in Latest Book, Odyssey of the Gods.
• 09/30/2011 — Part 2: Interviews with Scientists Studying Mysterious, Ancient Stone Circles in Middle East Visible Only from Air
• 07/07/2011 — Earthfiles Viewer Letters About Oltissis
• 10/21/2010 — Dead Sea Scrolls Going Online
• 10/01/2010 — Gobekli Tepe: 12,000 Years Old and Rewriting Human History

Websites:

Mediterranean Institute of Ancient Civilizations:  http://www.ancientmed.org/

Republic of Malta:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta

Gozo Island, Malta:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gozo

Ggantija Megalithic Temples of Malta:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ggantija

Gobekli Tepe, Turkey:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe

Stonehenge, England, The Guardian:  “Salford scientists reveal the sound of Stonehenge”:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner

BBC:  “Stonehenge design was ‘inspired by sounds”:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17073206

Stonehenge – Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge

Megalith:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalith

Bronze Age:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age

Ancient Temples and Sound Waves:  http://viewzone2.com/archeosoundx.html

Georgia Tech, “Limestone Seats Helped Ancient Greeks Hear From Back Row”:
http://www.science20.com/news/
limestone_seats_helped_ancient_greeks_hear_from_back_row