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Archaeologists working on Easter Island say a recent discovery could change long-standing ideas about the island’s past. The finding involves ancient wooden tablets covered in mysterious glyphs that ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

Easter Island has long been misunderstood by the West. A new book by Mike Pitts sets the record straight.

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation. The Rapa Nui moai, the monolithic stone figures of ...

For decades, archeologists have debated whether the writing system of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), known as Rongorongo, was invented independently or influenced by Europeans. A new study that uses ...