EASTER ISLAND'S ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WAS NOT DESTROYED BY WARFARE, EXPERTS SAY. Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, contains two lakes that are difficult to access, no streams and just one spring that is ...

Hunt's findings caused a stir among Easter Island scientists. John Flenley, a pollen analyst at New Zealand's University of Massey, accepts that the numerous rats would have some impact on the island.

The Mystery of Easter Island - programme summary. On Easter Day 1722, Dutch explorers landed on Easter Island. A civilisation isolated by 4,000km of Pacific Ocean was about to meet the outside ...

The Mystery of Easter Island - transcript. NARRATOR (JOHN SHRAPNEL): To the people who live there it is Rapa Nui.To the rest of us it is Easter Island, one of the strangest and most haunting ...

EASTER ISLAND researchers believe they have cracked the mystery of why the Rapa Nui civilisation collapsed, offering in the process valuable lessons about the present state of the world.

The Mystery of Easter Island - programme summary. On Easter Day 1722, Dutch explorers landed on Easter Island. A civilisation isolated by 4,000km of Pacific Ocean was about to meet the outside ...

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from Colombia’s Universidad de Los Andes, led by Cuban geologist Yamirka Rojas ...

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from ...

Easter Island discovery: Experts unravel mystery of ancient statues. IT’S a sight that has long baffled experts, but new research is finally shedding light on Easter Island’s most perplexing ...

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 consists of several extinct volcanoes. The oldest lava deposits formed some 2.5 million years ago on top of an oceanic plate not much older than the volcanoes themselves.

EXCLUSIVE Boris Johnson visits Easter Island - 'the place to be to avoid nuclear fall-out from WWIII'. While he's there the former PM sets about solving the mystery of its enigmatic statues ...