Continuing your walk through the South Temple, the second apse on the left holds three typical Maltese Neolithic “altars” made up of trilithons — two vertical stones topped by a horizontal lintel. The shape may have inspired the development of the “dolmen,” a pi-shaped grave marker built by later Bronze Age peoples all across Europe (i.e. Stonehenge). Animal bones found buried under altars like these hint that animal sacrifices may have been part of rituals practiced within the temples.