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

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

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

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Evidence discovered in a cave on Malta indicates hunter-gatherers visited the picturesque Mediterranean island long before they ...

Archeologists have decoded the markings on 20,000-year-old cave paintings created by Ice Age hunter-gatherers. The results show that early humans used writing to convey information far earlier ...

In a new paper published in Nature, evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open ...

Hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 km of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the first farmers. Credit: Daniel Clarke ...