DNA extracted from 15 corpses stored in a Paris museum has yielded a monumental surprise: the Rapa Nui, inhabitants of Easter ...

The widespread deforestation believed to have been caused by the Rapa Nui people to build the towering Easter Island statues ...

Genomes from people native to the island show that its original population was part of the Polynesian expansion across the ...

The population of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, interbred with Native Americans before Europeans arrived, despite ...

Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide — an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies ...

Discover the truth behind the mysterious history of Rapa Nui, challenging the myth of overpopulation and ecological collapse.

New research reveals that there was contact with Indigenous Americans before European arrival. Rapa Nui, also known as Te ...

The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries ...

The fascinating and remote Rapa Nui or Easter Island, is ~2,000 km from the nearest Polynesian island and 3,700 km west of South America. | Earth And The Environment ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), is one of the most remote inhabited ...

The scientists have debunked what they say was a colonial narrative, and one which has been used as a warning about ...

DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was ...