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

Many of the borough's beaches are secluded and lack lifeguards. For many visitors, that’s key to their appeal.

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

A 1930s makeup bottle may help researchers determine what happened to Amelia Earhart 88 years ago. A new research trip in ...

The story of San Nicolas Island’s lost people remains a haunting, fascinating episode in the rich and sometimes tragic past ...

The widespread deforestation believed to have been caused by the Rapa Nui people to build the towering Easter Island statues did not result in the population’s catastrophic collapse as held by a ...

DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was no population crash before the arrival of Europeans ...

When British explorer James Cook arrived at Rapa Nui — known to him as Easter Island — in 1774, he described small bands of malnourished people barely sustained by a barren, treeless strip of ...

Easter island’s ancient script has not yet been deciphered. This wooden tablet shows its complexity (Wikimedia Commons) The Polynesians were among the world’s first great mariners.

"We're saying that the island could never have supported 16,000 people; it didn't have the productivity to do so. This pre-European collapse narrative simply has no basis in the archaeological ...

“When people reached the island, they had to deal with those constraints.” Their first method was slash-and-burn agriculture, which involved cutting down the island’s trees.

The iconic statues of Easter Island. Picture: Tristan in Ottawa The statues, believed to be of religious and political significance, can stand up to 9m high.