Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via Ancient Origins) has rewritten previously held beliefs about the remote society of Rapa Nui, also ...

Island in the southern Pacific is one of the most geographically isolated places on Earth, but socially and culturally its ...

It’s hard to exaggerate how isolated Easter Island was before its discovery by Polynesian sailors eight or nine centuries ago ...

To reach this conclusion, the authors of a new study used radiocarbon dating to track the spread of ritual monuments across ...

Archaeologists have analyzed ritual spaces and monumental structures across Polynesia, questioning the idea that Rapa Nui ...

From a nine-month trek to a 20,000-mile motorcycle odyssey, these books will transport you across continents and encourage ...

Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect ...

A newly identified drought on the Pacific island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, could have spurred islanders to invest fewer resources in building their legendary stone monuments. But ...

The Tapati Rapa Nui Festival, one of the most significant cultural events in Polynesia, will take place from February 1 to February 14, 2025, on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). This annual celebration is a ...

Rapa Nui is part of Chile, although the island is 3,500 kilometres west of the mainland. Tapia is from Santiago, making him one of the few Chileans to join the roughly 100,000 people who visit ...

Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui, is far from the mainland of South America. But the long journey is worth it to see the moai statues and verdant landscape.

One example was the 2008 book Questioning Collapse. A chapter argued that the population of Rapa Nui did collapse, but it was because of colonisation not self-destruction.