Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

On 22 May we had a classic New England nor’easter, and the freight guys at the Block Island Ferry put up the Purple Flag when ...

Easter Island, long famous for its stone statues, now offers another legacy—one buried in the very sands beneath your feet. Research findings are available online in the journal ESS Open Archive.

Easter Island is one of the most remote islands on Earth, located about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) from the nearest landmass, the Pitcairn Islands, and more than 2,100 miles (3,500 kilometers ...

Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui, is far from the mainland of South America. But the long journey is worth it to see the moai statues and verdant landscape.

Boris Johnson visits Easter Island (above) with his wife, Carrie. 'You never saw a landscape so enchanting or so lonely,' he says. 'If you are really worried about World War Three – and you want ...

Since Easter Island is volcanic—the lava deposits sit atop an oceanic plate not much older than the actual volcano—dating zircon minerals (several extinct varieties of which are believed to be ...

Now, however, researchers have found crystal "time capsules" on Easter Island that appear to have stayed in the same place in the mantle for some 162.5 million years.

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.

Easter Island genomes To investigate Rapa Nui’s history further, researchers sequenced the genomes of 15 former residents who lived on the island during the past 400 years.

The mystery of Easter Island has continuously baffled experts. Famously, there are approximately 900 statues, or moai, located around the remote Pacific island.