A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

The objects include skulls from the Rapa Nui community, the indigenous population of Easter Island, which is known for its hundreds of moai—monolithic human figures carved centuries ago.

James Di Lorento, SI Local artists are reviving the ... the Rapa Nui people have re-emerged from the shadows of the past, recovering and reinventing their ancient art and culture.

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island. It’s a tiny ... financial markets around the world. An art critic uncovers mysteries from this ancient ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... Here's the anthropologist and art historian Steve Hooper: "It was a way of human beings who were alive relating to, and ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...

Easter Island, or its Polynesian name of Rapa Nui, is one of the world’s most isolated inhabited islands. Congressman Faleomavaega has been representing the territory of American Samoa in the ...

Easter Island, a territory of Chile, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia, whose native name is Rapa Nui. It is famous for its archaeological sites, including nearly 900 monumental statues ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A ... In bringing the Song of Rapa Nui to the world, pianist brings music education home Mahani Teave grew up on ...