a sport where people use a banana leaf to sled down Rapa Nui’s steepest hillside. Though getting to Easter Island isn’t hard, per se, it is a long journey. The only airline that flies to ...

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 ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous ... that the Easter Islanders had exchanged genes with a Native American population, suggesting that the inhabitants crossed ...

Rapa Nui, often referred to as Easter Island ... that the island's indigenous people had traveled there from South America, have since been put to rest. Genomes from people native to the island ...

A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the inhabitants commingled with Native Americans. When you purchase through ...

Surprising new evidence is rewriting the story of the giant stone heads of Easter Island. How were Easter Island’s giant stone heads made? New research challenges the idea that their ...

For decades, the story of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has captivated the world as a cautionary tale of environmental collapse and societal downfall. Popular narratives painted a picture of a civilization ...

The widespread claim that the ancient people of Easter Island experienced a societal collapse due to overexploitation of natural resources has been thrown into fresh doubt. Instead, there was a ...

Easter Island was discovered in 1722 by Dutch explorers, and its native population has lived on the island for hundreds of years. The oral history of the native Rapa Nui people claims that at ...

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.