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

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 ...

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

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In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs ...

The prehistoric settlement of Wangen-Hinterhorn and its pile dwellings were first identified in the shallow water zone along ...

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The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...