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

In the heart of Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island, a species long thought lost is taking root once again. The toromiro ...

Buscemi is also a director, with his last movie, The Listener , starring Tessa Thompson, premiering at the 2022 Venice Film ...

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

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

Little Sophora toromiro, is far from home, no longer present on Rapa Nui, the Pacific island where it evolved. Also known as ...

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

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island, not just in the Pacific, but in the world. Not surprisingly, it took human beings a long time to get there. The people of the ...

Te-Pito-te-Henua, "end of the land," or "land's end," is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern, and local, name for Easter Island, large palm forests flourished. Upon arrival ...