The remains of members of the Rapa Nui people from Easter Island are "finally going home" after sitting in the Australian ...

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The Australian Museum will repatriate human remains it has had for 143 years, acknowledging the past wrong done in their ...

Research by an international team, led by the University of Bristol, has shed new light on the fate of the ancient people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). It had been proposed that vast forests of giant ...

Mysterious, statue-laden Rapa Nui, dubbed Easter Island by European colonizers, is not an easy place to thrive. At more than 2,000 miles from the coast of South America, it is one of Earth’s most ...

The ancient Polynesians who settled the island of Rapa Nui – formerly known as Easter Island – may have worked out an ingenious way to make their iconic moai statues 'walk'. It's not just local legend ...

For decades, archeologists have debated whether the writing system of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), known as Rongorongo, was invented independently or influenced by Europeans. A new study that uses ...

It is dark, pleasantly nippy and easy to get sucked into the blob of tourists sitting in front of a bunch of famous statues at one of the world’s most remote places. The sun is about to break on Rapa ...

The population on Rapa Nui didn't crash because the Europeans came. Nor did they live in idyllic equilibrium with nature for centuries. Rapa Nui—also known as Easter Island—is one of the most remote ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The lost civilization of Easter Island may have chosen the location of ...

Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, once had a large population that crashed after living beyond its means and stripping the island of resources. A new ...