Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large ... which suggests that a highly advanced ancient civilization existed before the end of the last Ice Age. This theory has reached millions ...

In the southern Pacific Ocean, far off the coast of Chile, lies the remote island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ... community to reconstruct the genomic history of its people.

More double canoes were built, and now several teams are attempting to be the first to reach Easter Island, using ancient navigational techniques. No one has navigated a raft or voyaging canoe ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...

Hoteliers on Easter Island know better than to compete with ... and another is access to the Manavai Spa, a replica of an ancient stone circle once used to hold water and protect crops from ...

Sergio Rapu, 63, a Rapanui archaeologist and former Easter Island governor who did graduate work with Hunt, took his American colleagues to the ancient quarry on Rano Raraku, the island’s ...

there is no written record (and the oral history is scant) 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 ...

They settled both Hawaii and New Zealand, and between 700 and 900, they got to Rapa Nui - and so brought to an end one immense chapter of human history, for Easter Island was possibly the last ...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island ... this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has swirled around the iconic ancient statues and ...