Island’s moai statues, stunning landscapes, and vibrant culture in this ultimate guide to a Pacific paradise.

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth’s mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...

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

Could two of the world’s most mysterious ancient sites—Easter Island and Gobekli Tepe—be ... striking symbolic parallels between the Moai statues and Gobekli Tepe’s Pillar 43, including ...

Easter Island, long famous for its stone statues, now offers another legacy—one buried in the very sands beneath your feet. Research findings are available online in the journal ESS Open Archive.

Manuel Corpas, the chief scientific officer at start-up Cambridge Precision Medicine, has called for underrepresented ...

Even though archaeological and scientific tools have discovered much about these ancient civilizations, including facts about ...

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

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is one of the world's most remote places ...

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

The crew of HMS Montrose have spent the end of Christmas week on the remote Pacific Easter Island – famous for its huge stone statues. It’s thought to be the first time this century a British ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...