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

New genetic research helps debunk a popular theory about Easter Island and the mysterious decline of its indigenous ...

Scientists turn to ancient DNA to understand the history of Easter Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean also known as ...

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

Two recent studies have cast doubt on a popular theory that the ancient residents of Easter Island suffered a societal ...

Located more than 2,000 miles west of South America in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is one of Earth's most remote inhabited places. It marks the ...

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 ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.