Practically everyone has seen the iconic images of the Easter Island heads. What you may not have known is that those Easter Island heads actually have hidden buried bodies. Archaeologists have ...

Concert pianist Mahani Teave has traveled the world, But Rapa Nui, sometimes known as Easter Island, is her home. "Rapa Nui – that's what we call ourselves here also," she said. "That's our people, ...

Mahani Teave grew up on one of the most remote islands on Earth, but the 38-year-old pianist still found a way to bring her music to the world — and music education to Rapa Nui. Jeffrey Brown tells ...

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 ...

One thousand years ago, the first settlers of Rapa Nui — also known as Easter Island — feasted on a fusion cuisine of plants native to Polynesia but also ones indigenous to South America, around 2,300 ...

Rapa Nui men prepare their boats on Easter Island, 4,000 Km (2,400 miles) west of Santiago, Chile, in this 2003 archive photo. REUTERS/Carlos Barria * Any views expressed in this opinion piece are ...

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 ...

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Few places on earth are as well known for their so-called mysteries as Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. For a tiny island of 64 square miles, with its nearest neighbours some 1,300 miles away, ...