T here is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world.

While we don’t know how Easter Island’s moai were made, we all but certainly know who made them.Comparing languages, mythology, and art, the scholarly community believes the Rapa Nui people ...

Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui, is far from the mainland of South America. But the long journey is worth it to see the moai statues and verdant landscape.

A team of geologists investigated Easter Island’s age by dating zircon minerals, which turned out to highlight ancient unknowns. A mysterious mineral discovery on Easter Island could be up to ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Norway to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-Pacific.

On Oct. 2, 2024, a few hundred eclipse chasers will be on the volcanic Easter Island — called Rapa Nui by natives and one of the most remote places on Earth — to witness an annular solar ...

The long-held narrative is that the original inhabitants of Easter Island grew so fascinated with stone statues they decimated the ecological bounty of the island to clear the way to live and build.

Located in the Pacific Ocean 3500 kilometres from South America, Rapa Nui is one of the most remote inhabited islands on Earth. Polynesian people began settling there around AD 1200, when its 164 ...

V.E. Schwab’s Desert Island Book: “No matter how many times I revisit it, I find new lines to appreciate,” the fantasy writer says of “The Count of Monte Cristo.” Best Romance Books of ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Oslo to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Norway to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-Pacific ...