For centuries, Easter Island‘s story hhas been framed as a tragic tale of environmental collapse. The islanders were often ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that the ancient society that erected the colossal Moai figures on Chile’s Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island, collapsed many centuries ago. Now, a new study ...

No one knows where Easter Island is, and that’s just the start of the island’s immutable mysticism. When I told people I was traveling to the small island this spring, people would say, “The place ...

Scientists have debunked a popular myth surrounding Easter Island. An analysis of the island's famed rock gardens, undertaken by a team of researchers including faculty from Binghamton University, ...

Experts have unlocked more secrets of the mysterious ancient monuments on Easter Island. The famous statues, or moai, are supported by monumental platforms called ahu. Researchers, however, have long ...

A new moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said. "This ...

There are, of course, those massive stone statues of ancient legend lining its coast. Then there’s the epic isolation – more than 2,000 miles from the nearest population centers (Chile, Tahiti), it’s ...

Easter Island is on lots of bucket lists. Who wouldn’t want the chance to visit one of the world’s most remote islands and take selfies with those ancient, stoic stone faces? Yet there’s more to ...