The monumental statues of Easter ... island, more than 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, an international tourist destination that carries the U.N. designation as a World Heritage Site. But the ...

Easter Island was annexed by Chile in 1888. Half of the 8,000 people who now live here are Chilean immigrants. The other half are modern descendants ... inevitable. One day these moai will likely ...

A delegation from the British Museum has traveled to Easter Island to discuss calls ... the Kingdom of Benin – back to what is now modern-day Nigeria for a temporary exhibition.

A long-held theory that a dramatic population collapse occurred at some point on the southeast Pacific Ocean’s Easter Island has been ... A team of researchers used modern technology to more ...

His analysis suggested that a massive volcanic plateau existed at the site of present-day Easter Island 165 million years ago but disappeared under the Antarctic Peninsula about 110 million years ago ...

DNA analysis of ancient remains from Easter Island shows that ... in fact, from the island, as there is an effort being led by modern residents to repatriate the remains. The results show that ...