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

Easter Island, famous for its imposing moai statues, is often presented as a case of sudden societal collapse. However, a recent scientific analysis offers a renewed vision of its history, based ...

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

For decades, the global image of Rapa Nui — Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as if the moai were incomplete sculptures missing their bodies. But this ...