Is there a more enigmatic island than Rapa Nui (Easter Island), deforested and depopulated and studded with giant stone ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter ...