Archaeologists find evidence that hunter-gatherers crossed over 100 kilometers of open sea to reach Malta 8,500 years ago.

Malta’s human history may go back much further than we thought. A groundbreaking study published in Nature has revealed that ...

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 ...

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

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

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