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Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the south-easternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. Easter Island is famous ...

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 ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The 'Talking Boards' of Easter Island ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 198 No. 6 (June 1958), p. 61 doi:10.1038 ...

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 barren landscape. The moai and ceremonial sites are along ...

Watch this simple Easter story for pre-schoolers, using beautiful sand paintings to tell the story of Jesus coming back to life. When Jesus died his body was put in a tomb and a big stone was put ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – It is believed Moai statues were built between 1400 and 1650 AD, by people on the Easter Island in Chilean territory. They are monolithic statues made from stone, weigh 12.5 ...

Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus, but Easter is a celebration about the end of Jesus’ life on Earth and the start of his new life in Heaven with God. The Christian Story of Easter.