Radiocarbon dating of ancient scripts suggests a groundbreaking origin story.

The online model lets researchers and anyone with an internet connection explore areas that the island’s 100,000 annual ...

State-of-the-art computer modeling shows the iconic monuments arose from numerous teams from different clans working independently ...

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, sits isolated in the vast Pacific Ocean, famous for the colossal stone faces that stare out to ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the ...

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When Polynesian explorers landed on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, around 1200 C.E., they found nearly 20 million palm trees; by the time Dutch explorers arrived in 1722, they found only ...

A newly identified drought on the Pacific island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, could have spurred islanders to invest fewer resources in building their legendary stone monuments. But some ...

When the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed on Easter Island in 1722, he was puzzled by how the indigenous islanders could have transported the hundreds of colossal stone statues he found studding ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study suggests that the island of Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, didn’t develop in the extreme manner of isolation that we thought ...