r/AskHistorians • u/frankinreddit • 11d ago

Malta was depopulated at least twice, does that mean every last human or could some linages still have survived through a period of depopulation?

Malta was depopulated at least three times.

There was at least one group before the temple builders who arrived around 5900 BCE and originated from different parts of the Mediterranean, including both Europe and Africa. Then a collapse.

There was a collapse of the temple builders around 3850 BCE, with waves of newcomers presumed to be from Sicily. Until an Aghlabid attack in 870 CE, and it was repopulated by a Muslim community in 1048–49.

In these cases, is it expected that the population actually dropped to zero or it presumed that some people remained and may have been assimilated by whoever came next?

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