Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

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

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 ...

The Rapa Nui people of Easter Island are best known for carving hundreds of giant heads out of volcanic rock. For paleoclimatologists like Nick Balascio, the Rapa Nui are known for something else ...

This would place the people of Rapa Nui in a small class of civilizations that independently developed their own writing systems. A wooden tablet from Easter Island inscribed with the mysterious ...

New research has revealed that a wooden tablet from Rapa Nui—also known as Easter Island—inscribed with mysterious glyphs was likely created before the Europeans’ arrival, meaning the script ...

It got its name after Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen spotted the island on Easter Sunday in 1722. An 19th-century engraving depicting the Moai carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.