In Netflix s British drama
The Dig, archaeologist Stuart Piggott, played by Ben Chaplin, refers to a brief stop in Malta in 1943 while travelling from Cairo to Algiers.
Accompanied by fellow archaeologist Glyn Daniel, the pair spent two “blissful” days on the island, “inspecting megalithic monuments and rock-cut tombs on the island, several spattered with bits of German and Italian aircraft,” as stated by the British Academy’s Roger Mercer in 1998.
But, in a post on Facebook, the National Museum of Archaeology says that Piggot was, however, to leave a more significant mark on Maltese archaeology.
He was one of the external experts on a commission supervising the defining study, Malta Ancient Monuments Survey, which recorded Malta s prehistoric monuments, excavations and objects found there.