Around 5000 BC
Neolithic farmers arrive.
5000-4000 BC
Neolithic period: Skorba Temples built.
4000-3000 BC
Temple Period: Age of Tarxien and Ggantija temples and Hal Saflieni Hypogeum.
2500-700 BC
Bronze and Iron Age. Period of fortified villages and ‘cart tracks’.
700-550 BC
Phoenicians colonize the islands.