I refer to the article by Ms Isabelle Vella Gregory (The Sunday Times, February 20).

It's becoming a trend that someone who expresses openly his views on this vast subject is being labelled as a racist. In her article, she twisted my references in a way that a different picture on the account of their intention was given.

In my previous letter, I gave a very brief summary of evolutionary and palaeoanthropological studies, since space available in the newspaper is limited.

I used only the term Aryan to mean the noble builders. Regarding the Siberian site of Malta, I will elaborate further. The cult of the Great Mother Goddess, a thaumaturgic figure, has monopolised the attention of archaeological studies in Malta.

Our world famous Hypogeum, recently restored with meticulous care, draws serious scholars and students. The importance of this site is so great that a similar site in Siberia discovered in 1928 was named 'the Malta Settlement'.

Palaeolithic artefacts produced by the same people were found also all across the Caucasus, Crimea, the Russian steppes, Siberia, the Altai and near the river Dnester.

Female figurines from the Malta-Siberia dwellings are worthy of particular attention. They are exceptionally rare, early Palaeolith figurines wearing some form of garnets.

Found also are plates made from mammoth tusk, depicting a mammoth and snakes, as well as figurines of stylised flying birds. Arrow tips are also in the form of stylised birds, signifying the oneness of shooter and target.

The artefacts at Kostenky I have more geometrical patterns, while a female figurine is very similar to the Maltese Goddess.

This whole era is Mondmensch. The female predominates: she is everywhere venerated. The temples themselves, like the splendid Mnajdra, are shaped like a female displaying her vulva towards the rising sun at the winter solstice.

She stated that Malta has as yet not yielded any traces of the palaeolithic period. This is absolutely not true because a palaeolithic case at Ghar Hasan, Clacdonian Capital and microlithic from various sites proved the opposite.

In my previous letter, there is no single reference stating that the latest inhabitants did not came here from Stentinello in southeast Sicily around 5000 BC.

To create a scenario on these magnificent builders through the ages, one can read an interesting article that appeared in Herra magazine, Rome, by Vittorio Di Cessare and Adriano Forgione.

The work of Professor Walter B. Emery, the famous Egyptologist, author of Archaic Egypt, also spreads light on this subject.

Regarding the proof of a biological race, I strongly suggest to Ms Vella Gregory to read the study of Nei and Roychoudhury (Mol. Bio. Evol. 10, 927-943, 1993).

A true fact, that anyone can't deny, is that up to 40 years ago Malta had only one black, and he was treated with dignity. Only in this context I stated that breeding with Africans is almost totally absent. If these facts will be interpreted as racism, then I will beg pardon.

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