A new paper advances the decades-long argument regarding whether rats were the driving force that deforested Rapa Nui, aka ...

Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans), is located in the southeast Pacific and is famous for its approximately 1,000 carvings of moai, human-faced statues. The island ...

Dr. Terry Hunt from the University of Arizona and Dr. Carl Lipo from the University of Birmingham have published a study in ...

A new study led by researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory offers the clearest evidence yet that a centuries-long ...

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 ...

SANTIAGO, ChileSANTIAGO, Chile — A land dispute on Easter Island turned violent Friday when riot police evicting islanders from their ancestral home were quickly surrounded by rock-throwing Rapa Nui ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina » A military plane carrying riot police reinforcements landed on Easter Island Saturday, and Chile’s Interior Minister said they will continue evicting Rapa Nui islanders who ...

Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, once had a large population that crashed after living beyond its means and stripping the island of resources. A new ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – A military plane carrying riot police reinforcements landed on Easter Island Saturday, and Chile's Interior Minister said they will continue evicting Rapa Nui islanders who ...