For centuries, the famous statues that dot the coast of the remote Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific have both fascinated and puzzled archaeologists. Now, a team of archaeologists claims ...

People from Chile's Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, also had South American ancestry ... This contact explains the mystery of how the sweet potato arrived in Polynesia centuries before European ...

Hancock argues that Polynesian settlers encountered a pre-existing population, evidenced by banana remains from at least 3,000 years ago. Graham Hancock's new theory claims a lost civilization ...

Easter Island is one of the most ... Polynesians likely began inhabiting the island around 1000 CE. The purpose of the moai remains a mystery to researchers. A 2019 study published in PLOS One ...