Linguists estimate Easter Island's first inhabitants arrived around AD 400, and most agree that they came from East Polynesia. The archaeological record suggests a somewhat later date of ...

How did the first inhabitants of Easter Island arrive? It is the most remote inhabited island on Earth. The coast of Chile lies 2,300 miles to the east, Tahiti 2,500 miles to the northwest ...

In 1955, it was discovered that Moai, the ancient and mysterious giant heads on Easter Island, had very large bodies buried underneath the ground. Now, scientists and archaeologists believe they know ...

Easter Island experienced a renaissance during the first few years of the Covid-19 ... Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water scarcity, and this influx of travelers placed a ...

View of Moais -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- on Easter Island ... That is close to the number of people that Europeans first found on the island, indicating there never was a society ...

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people. As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its ...