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Latnija cave

Latnija Cave (Maltese: Għar tal-Latnija), also known as Għar Tuta, is a cave in Mellieħa, Malta. The cave gained international prominence in 2025 when excavations revealed evidence of human habitation dating back 8,500 years, pushing Malta's known human history back by a millennium. This groundbreaking discovery established that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reached Malta approximately 1,000 years before the Neolithic farmers previously thought to be the islands' first inhabitants.

Cave data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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