THE MYSTERIOUS
STATUE I FOUND
Maria Scerri
It was a sunny Sunday and my family and I decided to go
and visit the Ġgantija temples in Xagħra. My twin sister and I were still very young and we
weren’t interested in History. So we decided to go to and play in a field nearby.
Mum didn’t notice that we had gone to
play. We started digging seperately but
after a while I heard my sister cry. She
told me that her hand hit something
hard and that she was hurt. But we
couldn’t go back to our parents because
they would keep us next to them. My
sister was ok but I wanted to know what
was in the soil. I dug until I got surprised
because I found a small figurine of the
goddess of fertility!
My sister and I ran to my mother and showed her the statue, she was so surprised! We
took the statue to the Ġgantija temples manager. He couldn’t beleive his eyes! He told us
that a thief had stolen it in 2000 and they couldn’t find it! The figurine was over 5000 years
old! It was the goddess of fertility of the people who lived in Gozo 5000 years ago.
Our prize was to go to a large toy store in Malta and choose five things
that we wanted! My sisters and I were truly the heroes!
20