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In the 4th millennium BC, a sophisticated Stone Age civilization emerged in Malta, an archipelago of islands in the center of the Mediterranean. This civilization is often known as the Temple culture. Beginning in around 3500 BC, the people of the island began to erect massive temples and other monuments. They are The Maltese built some of the earliest free-standing buildings that have been built in all of human culturethe world. The majority of the temples consist of five semi-circular rooms that surrounded a central space, which was probably a sacred space.  There have been many important archaeological finds in these temples, especially of figures of obese women. These are believed to represent some fertility goddess or a mother goddess. Some believe that Malta and its temples were the centers of an important a significant pan-Mediterranean cult. The Maltese temple culture was one that lasted until 2200 BC. No one knows for sure why the civilization collapsed , but it may have been a result of over-farming and climate change. The Temple culture may have been handed down in the oral tradition , and it possibly contributed to the myth of a great civilization, that was lost, after a cataclysmic flood.