The search for a navigator led them 4,000 kilometers west, to the tiny Micronesian island of Satawal. The island is just over ...

One of the world's earliest city cultures, it thrived circa 2500 BCE in cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Its sophisticated drainage, uniform weights, and as-yet-unreadable script suggest ...

A newly identified drought on the Pacific island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, could have spurred islanders to invest fewer resources in building their legendary stone monuments.

If you thought the Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) was mostly just a luau, you’d only be scratching the surface. Don’t get ...

Rapa Nui’s mysterious moai statues stand in silence but speak volumes about the achievements of their creators. The stone blocks, carved into head-and-torso figures, average 13 feet (4 meters ...

But the most surprising thing about my visit to Easter Island, known locally as Rapa Nui, was watching the moon do something extraordinary above this iconic location. Remote, barren and almost ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not ... of maoi in various stages of being carved, head to the Rano Raraku volcano.

The volcanic island of Rapa Nui has long been shrouded in mystery. European sailors first arrived on its shores on Easter Sunday in ... are shaped like large human heads and erected on stone ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population ... has hundreds of monumental stone heads that echo of the past. The island has long been a place of intrigue.