Malta cave provides experts with evidence that indicates humans possibly forayed into the sea before becoming farmers.

This timeline predates the arrival of Neolithic farmers in Malta and the broader Mediterranean region, underscoring the early and prolonged presence of hunter-gatherers on these remote islands.

A team of researchers from the University of Malta and the Max Planck Institute, led by archaeologist Eleonor Scerri made a ...

A new ground-breaking research which has pushed Malta’s history by a whole millennium has dominated national headlines ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A magical mermaid story extracted from the new book Welsh Folk Tales of Coast and Sea by Peter Stevenson. The shallow sea in Cardigan Bay, from Pen Llŷn in the north to Ceredigion in the west, was ...

Discover the Mesolithic—the short but crucial period after the last Ice Age that shaped human culture and technology. With megafauna gone and Homo sapiens thriving, different regions entered ...

A new DNA study reveals that dark skin was common among early Europeans for much longer than previously believed. Pale skin became prevalent only around 3,000 years ago. The research suggests that ...