But did you ever wonder how the most famous bunny of all, the Easter Bunny, became synonymous with Easter, a holiday ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...

More double canoes were built, and now several teams are attempting to be the first to reach Easter Island, using ancient navigational techniques. No one has navigated a raft or voyaging canoe ...

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is one of the most isolated places ... invention of writing in human history.” Rongorongo, which means “to recite, to declaim, to chant out” in Rapa Nui, is ...

Hoteliers on Easter Island know better than to compete with ... and another is access to the Manavai Spa, a replica of an ancient stone circle once used to hold water and protect crops from ...

Sergio Rapu, 63, a Rapanui archaeologist and former Easter Island governor who did graduate work with Hunt, took his American colleagues to the ancient quarry on Rano Raraku, the island’s ...

there is no written record (and the oral history is scant) to help tell the story of this remote land, its people, and the significance of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's ...

They settled both Hawaii and New Zealand, and between 700 and 900, they got to Rapa Nui - and so brought to an end one immense chapter of human history, for Easter Island was possibly the last ...

Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter ...