Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Island (Rapa Nui), a small island in the Polynesian Triangle, is famous for its mysterious moai statues and rich history. With diverse habitats and ancient secrets, it remains one of the most ...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui–also known as Easter Island–carved and raised ... around the iconic ancient statues and the history of the people who created them.

an event often labeled one of history's first "ecocides". Easter Island, located in the Pacific Ocean 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) from the coast of Chile, is best known for the enigmatic "moai ...

A NEW study has shed light on a 400-year-old indigenous tribe on a mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean. It was previously believed that the indigenous population on Easter Island had collapsed ...

To investigate Rapa Nui’s history further ... have been reluctant to let go of cataclysmic stories about Easter Island, said Lisa Matisoo-Smith, a professor of biological anthropology at ...

Easter Island in the southeast Pacific is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. In February, archaeologists found ...

For decades, archeologists have debated whether the writing system of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), known as Rongorongo ... a rare feat throughout human history, and one usually associated with ...

Photograph by Susan Seubert Much knowledge about the history and traditions of the ... years before the first European arrived on the island on Easter Sunday 1722. Van Tilburg believes Polynesians ...