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

Malta reached earlier than previously thought: Researchers have found evidence that hunter-gatherers arrived on the island by boat as early as 8,500 years ago – around 1,000 years before the first ...

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

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 ...

New archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were far more capable oflong-distance sea travel than previously believed. These findings are reshaping our ...

Early Mediterranean hunter-gatherers navigated long-distance sea journeys - partly at night - to the island of Malta well ...