The ancient Polynesians who settled the island of Rapa Nui – formerly known as Easter Island – may have worked out an ingenious way to make their iconic moai statues 'walk'. It's not just local legend ...

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 ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

This video shows a historic landscape in Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, where a line of large stone statues stands on open ...

Rising sea levels could cause seasonal waves to reach Ahu Tongariki, the iconic ceremonial platform that is part of the Rapa Nui National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site by 2080, according to a ...

So how can an island that is known to have giant stone faces still surprise the archaeologists? Rapa Nui aka Easter Island has always appeared to the outside world as a riddle that is solved: this is ...

A bowl of fish soup is what started a relationship between Guam seafarers and the delegates from Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. Festival of Pacific Arts Canoe, Navigation and Seafaring ...

The moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) are among the world's most recognizable monuments. Furthermore, the authors of the study argue that making the mata'a inefficient as killing tools was a deliberate ...