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It revealed, for the very first time, what one of the earliest Maltese actually looked like.

Here's what another of the earliest Maltese actually looked like:

Charles Darwin theorized that the Maltese Dog breed could be as old as 6,000 years

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Charles Darwin theorized that the Maltese Dog breed could be as old as 6,000 years

Dog years or people years?

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Charles Darwin theorized that the Maltese Dog breed could be as old as 6,000 years.

So, in 4,000 BC, great herds of the Maltese roamed the wind-swept steppes and rocky grags of that island. One of the lost books of Odysseus was about the time he and his sailors shipwrecked on the island of overindulged, yip-howling, ankle-beasts. It must have been them.