Latnija Cave — Wikipedia

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.