Explore the intriguing history of Easter Island and uncover who might have inhabited the island before the Polynesians. Delve into the legends, archaeological evidence, and DNA studies that shed ...

The Chilean government claimed possession of Easter Island in 1888 and, in 1935, designated it a national park, to preserve thousands of archaeological sites. (Archaeologist Van Tilburg estimates ...

Easter Island covers just 63 square miles ... civilization collapsed when the palm forest did; based on their own archaeological survey of the island, they think its population grew rapidly ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface tells a story of volcanism that began roughly 2.5 million years ago ...