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

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

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 ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

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 ...

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Claudio Cristino has been Easter Island's resident archaeologist for the past two decades. He is also Assistant Professor of Prehistory at the University of Chile, Research Fellow at the Easter ...