Rapa Nui, often referred to as Easter Island, is one of the most remote populated islands in the world. It's so distant that Europeans didn't stumble onto it until centuries after they had started ...

Although rapamycin eventually became a billion-dollar drug, many of the people instrumental to its discovery—most importantly, the people of Rapa Nui—have been largely forgotten in both a monetary and ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry lake ...

A new study into the indigenous people of Easter Island has revealed that they were a sophisticated and peaceful society. Located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, the Chilean Island covers just 170 ...

It was 2023 when Friar Francisco Nahoe received a panicked phone call from his agent at an airport in Santiago, Chile. The agent said officials were seizing three "ivi tupuna", or "bones of the ...

Easter Island's indigenous authorities have asked Chile's government to help them recover a unique monumental Moai statue removed 150 years ago and now kept in the British Museum in London. The ...

Ancient inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) maintained a society of thousands by utilizing coastal groundwater discharge as their main source of 'freshwater,' according to new research from a team ...

An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success story. Yet the history told about this "miracle drug" has completely left out the people and politics ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Easter Island ’s iconic Moai statues were “walked” to their platforms using rope by ...

Evidence is now stronger than ever that the mysterious population collapse of Rapa Nui never actually happened. Recent ...