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Bas-relief with images of goats, a pig and a bull, from the temple complex of Tarxien, Malta.
This site is made up by three temples, the oldest of which dates back to 5,000 years B.P. and has been declared World Heritage Site in 1992. Many reliefs with animal pictures are on the site, among which are to be noticed the first animals domesticated by man: goats, sheep and pigs. Copy of the original deposited in the National Museum of Archaeology in La Valletta, Malta.


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