While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

The online model lets researchers and anyone with an internet connection explore areas that the island’s 100,000 annual ...

A groundbreaking new study provides compelling evidence that Easter Island's enormous moai statues were built by competing clans rather than an authority ...

Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via Ancient Origins) has rewritten previously held beliefs about the remote society of Rapa Nui, also ...

Maybe this isn't a newsflash to everyone, but the Moai "heads" on Easter Island have bodies. Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are ...

For years, the story of Easter Island has been told as a grim fable: a small, isolated community cut down its last tree, ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.

About 30 wooden objects from the remote island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, in the South Pacific Sea bear an engraved script that remains untranslated. Experts have long wondered whether ...

On title page of some vols.: London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd.; other vols. distributed by Rand McNally & Co. Thor Heyerdahl and Edwin N. Ferdon, editors, v. 1-2 ...