It got its name after Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen spotted the island on Easter Sunday in 1722. Roggeveen stayed on the island for a week, observing the native residents' culture and way of life ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island ... from the island has revealed a slice of Rapa Nui history that speaks ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...

For decades, archeologists have debated whether the writing system of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), known as Rongorongo ... Dutch ...

On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island ... came from the island itself. Yet when Dutch explorers landed on Easter Sunday in 1722, they met a ...

This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture ... The arrival of European explorers in 1722 was a major change for the island. It brought new challenges ...