Now, these surprising findings could fundamentally change our understanding of ancient life on Easter Island. The people of Rapa Nui, famous for the large stone Moai statues they carved ...

Rapa Nui is 1,900 kilometers (1,180 miles ... That's about the same number of people who were living on Easter Island when Europeans first arrived there in 1722. Carl Lipo, an archaeologist ...

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen ... fencing them into one small village), the Rapa Nui people were all but destroyed. By 1877 there were only 110 natives left on the ...

Easter Island, or its Polynesian name of Rapa Nui ... Chile took control of the island and confined the Rapa Nui people to a small area of land, approximately one square mile”.

West Aucklander turned Rapa Nui resident Marc Shields, gives a run-down on the island also known as Easter Island.

As early as BC 5500 people in Melanesia were voyaging ... is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern, and local, name for Easter Island, large palm forests flourished.

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... which created an unrivalled cultural landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout the world ...

There is a Rapa-nui wedding ceremony, complete with loincloth, awaiting you on Chile’s Easter Island. Chilean tour companies offer a range of ceremonies on beautiful island locales that include ...

It takes six hours to get to this remote destination that has almost no phone service, rolling green hills and volcanoes.

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A ... In bringing the Song of Rapa Nui to the world, pianist brings music education home Mahani Teave grew up on ...