Easter Island Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Approximately 1,000 years ago, a group of Polynesian settlers embarked on a remarkable journey across the Pacific Ocean, ultimately colonizing a remote, uninhabited

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Easter Island's large and impressive stone-carved statues have long intrigued scientists and the public in general. Many have long wondered how the ancient

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The population on Rapa Nui didn't crash because the Europeans came. Nor did they live in idyllic equilibrium with nature for centuries. Rapa

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient Rapanui carvers worked at the behest of the elite ruling class to carve nearly 1,000 Moai because they, and the community at

AncientPages.com - Researchers  have analyzed the chemical makeup of the tools used to create the big stone sculptures and found evidence that Easter Island's society was sophisticated and its

AncientPages.com - Researchers have long tried to figure out how the Easter Island's giant statues got their heavy red hats. The statues, carved from volcanic tuff, came from

AncientPages.com - The mystery of Easter Island deepens. Scientists have conducted an analysis of DNA from ancient skeletal remains and it turns out history of Easter Island is not

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - "...Future events will destroy these sacred tablets... Men of other races will guard a few that remain as priceless objects, and their Maori will study them in

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Standing some 2,000 miles west of Chile, on Easter Island, 887 mysterious giant statues have intrigued scientists and the public for years. For