Bunny origin story is more mysterious than you might imagine, and religion seems to have nothing to do with it ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...

For decades, archeologists have debated whether the writing system of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), known as Rongorongo ... a ...

A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...

They settled both Hawaii and New Zealand, and between 700 and 900, they got to Rapa Nui - and so brought to an end one immense chapter of human history, for Easter Island was possibly the last ...

Linguists estimate Easter Island's first inhabitants arrived around ... Core sampling from the island has revealed a slice of Rapa Nui history that speaks of deforestation, soil depletion, and ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

there is no written record (and the oral history is scant) to help tell the story of this remote land, its people, and the significance of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's ...

Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter ...

They settled both Hawaii and New Zealand, and between 700 and 900, they got to Rapa Nui - and so brought to an end one immense chapter of human history, for Easter Island was possibly the last ...