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

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

These linguistic links point to a genealogical bond that ties the people of the Pacific to one another. Indeed, in 1994, DNA from 12 Easter Island skeletons was found to be Polynesian. According ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people. As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its ...

Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water scarcity, and this influx of travelers placed a "huge burden" on the land, CNN said in 2019. To prevent a covid catastrophe, officials ...

Honey Hooper/Wikimedia Commons The team discovered that there is only a small amount of freshwater available on Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui, so the people who lived there most likely ...

A new study on Rongorongo, an indecipherable script found on artifacts on Easter Island, finds it could have been ...

Could the mysterious Moai statues of Easter Island and the ancient carvings of Göbekli Tepe be linked? Despite being ...

In the quarry at Rano Raraku, ancient matamu'a carved the stone monuments known as moai, which represent ancestors who have ...