Mnajdra

Perhaps having learned that Globigerina Limestone does not resist bad weather the builders of Mnajdra constructed this temple out of the harder Coralline Limestone which, however, was difficult to work, while the interior walls were faced with a softer kind of limestone.
The best preserved of the three Mnajdra temples is interesting for the secret chambers that are hidden inside the thickness of its walls; these chambers communicate with the temple proper by holes bored through the wall; it is surmised that statues of gods, or goddesses, could have been placed in frontof these holes and the "priest" hiding in the oracle chamber was the voice of the deity as this "spoke" to the faithful. A healing cult could have been practised in this temple because a number of baked-clay models of the human body, showing symptoms of disease, have been found here.