The Birdman competition was a dangerous ... Watch the Kevin Costner-produced movie Rapa Nui (Amazon Prime) to get a feel for this race's extreme difficulty and intensity. The individual who ...

(Having befriended several Rapa Nui during my visit ... only with native religious traditions but with the "cult of the birdman." (In centuries past, each year a birdman competition was held ...

Easter Island's statues are famous. Towering stone figures against the island's green landscape, they've inspired replica statues in Japan and emojis on smartphones around the world. As ...

In Hanga Roa's small museum, several were explored: UFO and New Age nonsense, the still undeciphered language of the Rapa Nui, the so-called birdman cult that replaced the moai at the end of the ...

"I hear the families speaking Rapa Nui among themselves," explained Maria ... Rather, they show the tangata manu, the Birdman of the eponymous 18th- and 19th-century cult that sprang up as ...

At the end of the road to Rano Kao is the stone village of Orongo, an interesting place in itself and also home to the ...

Why Trust Us? For decades, archeologists have debated whether the writing system of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), known as Rongorongo, was invented independently or influenced by Europeans.

Moai in Rapa Nui National Park on the slopes of Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island, Chile. There are approximately 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, but the recent discovery has excited ...

The famous statues on Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — have suffered "irreparable" damage in a fire, local authorities said. A photo shared by the municipality of Rapa Nui on social ...