In a surprising turn of events, a new moai statue has been discovered on Easter Island in 2025, challenging previous archaeological assumptions and potentially reshaping our understanding of the ...

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Tim M. Berra, Ph.D., will present a lecture on Easter Island's history and culture at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Bellville on March 29.

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, holds a fascinating history of discovery. While Polynesian voyagers first settled the ...

Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery—spine-tingling but solvable—it’s hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to know how a lost ...