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When were boats invented?

The oldest physical boat is a canoe from roughly 10,000 years ago, but evidence suggests humans have been using watercraft for at least 50,000 years.
It is a cloudy, humid September morning near the end of monsoon season in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and one of the ...
In ‘Island at the Edge of the World,’ Mike Pitts tells the story of the people who carved the giant heads on the remotest inhabited place on earth.
Indonesia's traditional phinisis are being raised to superyacht standards to attract more discerning seafarers. We jump ...
Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...
This month, AFP reported from OceanXplorer, a high-tech marine research vessel owned by billionaire-backed nonprofit OceanX, ...
A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, ...
The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.