For decades, an influential theory blamed the Rapanui for their own downfall—a story made famous by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. New evidence tells a different tale ...
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 ...
Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago. The volcanic rock used for the moai came from a quarry site called Rano Raraku. Archaeologists have ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When surgeon J. Linton Palmer landed on Easter Island in 1868 onboard HMS Topaze, he found the marks of disaster. The island, ...
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