We all know about those famous heads on Easter Island, but their origins are still largely a mystery. These large stone ...

A new study suggests that the island of Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, didn’t develop in the extreme manner of ...

Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect ...

Easter Island is the scene of one of the great archaeological mysteries, as a unique monolithic ritual culture emerged and ...

Despite being thousands of miles from the nearest inhabitable island, Easter Island was visited several times before the ...

Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via Ancient Origins) has ...

New research reveals that ancient Easter Island was not isolated but played a key role in spreading ceremonial traditions ...

The iconic moai statues of Easter Island, known locally as Rapa Nui, are crumbling under the pressure of climate change and ...

It’s hard to exaggerate how isolated Easter Island was before its discovery by Polynesian sailors eight or nine centuries ago ...

Easter Island in the southern Pacific is one of the most geographically isolated places on Earth, but socially and culturally its influence may have been overlooked, new research suggests.