Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm ...

University of Arizona anthropologist Terry L. Hunt and Lipo explore the complex situation in "Reassessing the role of ...

New research shows how people, palms, and millions of rats shaped Easter Island long before Europeans arrived.

D mapping reveals Easter Island's iconic statues were built by competing family clans, not centralized rulers.

A solitary island in the South Pacific known for the giant sculpture "Moai" carving human face "Easter IslandThere used to be a civilization, but it is said that almost completely destroyed by the war ...

There are good reasons the story of Easter Island is often held up as a parable for planet Earth and humanity’s future. The tiny island was, for centuries, as isolated in the vast Pacific Ocean as is ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

Carl studied a variety of possibilities to decipher the mystery of how the statues were moved to where they stand today in ...