The remains of members of the Rapa Nui people from Easter Island are "finally going home" after sitting in the Australian ...

When Polynesian explorers landed on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, around 1200 C.E., they found nearly 20 million palm trees; by the time Dutch explorers arrived in 1722, they found only ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists used drones to produce this 3D model of Rano Raraku, the volcanic crater where 95% of Rapa Nui's giant statues were ...

At a growing number of lodges, travelers can sit beside local artisans and learn the skills to make a memorabilia they take ...

The Australian Museum will repatriate human remains it has had for 143 years, acknowledging the past wrong done in their ...

We're off to Oceania ... (GREGORY BOISSY/AFP via Getty Images) Far off the Chilean coastline, tucked among the mystery of the grand Pacific Ocean—and more so, the Polynesian Triangle—lies Easter ...

It is dark, pleasantly nippy and easy to get sucked into the blob of tourists sitting in front of a bunch of famous statues at one of the world’s most remote places. The sun is about to break on Rapa ...