New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the ...

Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the ...

Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to ...

Cave site of Latnija in the northern Mellieħa region of Malta. Photo credit: Huw GroucuttNew research published in the ...

New research published in the journal Nature today (Wednesday 9 th April), shows that hunter-gatherers crossed at least 100km ...

Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the first farmers, a new ...

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Learn how early humans made the 60-mile crossing from Europe to Malta, navigating at least partially by stars.

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

Ground-breaking discovery reveals Malta was inhabited 1,000 years earlier than previously thought—by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who crossed 100km of open sea from Sicily • Discovery reshapes narrativ ...

Malta's history has been pushed back by 1,000 years in a discovery that is rewriting the islands' pre-history, as scientists have found new evidence that shows that ...