Aiming to solve the secret of our mysterious cart ruts

There were no flying geese pulling carts off the cliffs in Ċirkewwa and there is no Atlantis off Birzebugia, where ruts run underwater, archaeologist David Trump will explain at a lecture tonight, held after 57 years of studies on cart ruts in Malta.
But tonight, Dr Trump won’t only dispel humorous or wild ideas. He will also speak about a new discovery to do with the type of vehicle that could possibly have created the cart ruts, as he tries to answer controversial questions posed since Gian Frangisk Abela recorded the ruts phenomenon back in 1647.
For the past six decades Dr Trump has been trying to understand these grooves, which are found in many areas of exposed Maltese rock.
“Thinking about my experience of the Maltese cart ruts, the thing that strikes me most is that in these 57 years, I have added far more questions than answers,” Dr Trump said ahead of his lecture at Din l-Art Ħelwa at 6.30 pm this evening.

It will be Dr Trump’s first talk that is solely about cart ruts. He will be sharing some new ideas and possible solutions that he has come up with since 2008, when he published, with Daniel Cilia, Cart-Ruts and their Impact on the Maltese Landscape by Heritage...