A new theory about who built the iconic human-like figures on Easter Island has sent shockwaves through the archaeological community. Most historians agree that the stone structures were ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... The two-week "contest of dance, drama, cookery, song and sport" reflects the essential need of the Rapa Nui to ...

The Moai statues of Easter Island have some of the best views of the night sky on Earth. Sometimes a photo can captivate so powerfully that you are transported to another place and time.

Now, a study by geologists from Cuba, Colombia, and the Netherlands is challenging that long-held view. Easter Island, known for its extinct volcanoes, was formed around 2.5 million years ago. In 2019 ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data ...

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.

Chile-based SASIPA, the energy supplier for Easter Island, has launched a tender for the deployment of a 2.99 MW solar plant connected to 2 MWh of energy storage capacity. The project will reduce ...

A widely accepted narrative suggested that the inhabitants of Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, overexploited their resources, leading to environmental degradation and a drastic decline in ...

Drawing on the latest science, this authoritative documentary radically re-writes the story of Easter Island. They’re some of the most famous and mysterious monuments on the planet. Nearly nine ...

A new study published earlier this week identified breadfruit and other South American crops introduced to an early settlement on Easter Island. Traces of Breadfruit and other South American crops ...

Nearly 1,000 mysterious, monolithic moai statues have been drawing visitors to Easter Island—a 63-square-mile speck in the ocean, 2,100 miles from continental Chile—for more than a century.

Little else is known about the markings yet. Detailed markings are visible. Picture: The Easter Island Statue Project There are 887 huge statues carved between AD 100 and 1800 — which are up to ...