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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

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

A new archaeological investigation led by the University of Cologne has revealed how hunter-gatherer populations in Europe ...

As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many ...