Scientists thought they found them all.

Rapa Nui, 2,200 miles west of the mainland, is as rugged as it is remote — and an exploration offers blustery hikes, volcanic ...

The Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island were first encountered by European explorers in the 18th century. Disease and ...

New excavations and high tech scans on one of the world’s most remote islands are forcing archaeologists to redraw the story of how complex societies rise, adapt and endure. On Rapa Nui, better known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 1,289 miles from the nearest human settlement, Easter Island—or Rapa Nui, as its own people call it—is arguably the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For decades, archeologists have debated whether the writing system of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), known as ...

Now the islanders are hoping desperately to get it back. The statue, known as a "moai" and named the Hoa Hakananai'a, is one of hundreds originally found on the island. Carved by Polynesian colonizers ...

Easter Island is world-famous for the giant stone statues, the Moai, that were erected in the 13th-17th centuries as a form of religious protection for its communities, and as a form of religious ...