Another of the Main Temple’s apses held a trilithon altar (now braced by metal scaffolding) next to two free-standing, anvil-shaped altars, each carved from a single stone. Many charred animal bones were recovered next to these altars. However, no human bones or burials have ever been found within any of the Maltese temples, although cemeteries from later periods have intruded into the ruins. (In other words, no, the people who built these temples did not practice human sacrifice.)