Nestled in the South Pacific Ocean, some 6,000 people live on the most isolated, inhabited island in the world: Rapa Nui.

Who moved the giant stone heads of Easter Island?. Carved over 500 years ago without machines, the Moai statues of Rapa Nui ...

Scientists just found something new on Easter Island, and it messes with a bunch of theories people treated like facts for ...

Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new clues about how these monuments were made and the Polynesian society that brought ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the ...

Illustration of Polynesian Rat, Rattus exulans from an article entitled 'On the New Zealand Rat. (With Illustrations.)', by Walter Buller, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New ...

A traditional dance group from Rapa Nui (or Easter Island) performed a ceremony at the British Museum in London in front of one of the giant, iconic statues from their island that has been part of the ...