Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum ...

Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum on Wednesday returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during ...

Four members of the delegation sent from Easter Islands spent the night at the Oslo museum as part of a ritual ceremony to ...

Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are ...

The Moai statues of Easter Island have some of the best views of the night sky on Earth. Sometimes a photo can captivate so powerfully that you are transported to another place and time.

A team of geologists investigated Easter Island’s age by dating zircon minerals, which turned out to highlight ancient unknowns. A mysterious mineral discovery on Easter Island could be up to ...

A "ring of fire" shines over Easter Island in a spectacular new image of the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2. A "ring of fire" shines over Easter Island in a spectacular new image of the annular ...

Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.

Now, a study by geologists from Cuba, Colombia, and the Netherlands is challenging that long-held view. Easter Island, known for its extinct volcanoes, was formed around 2.5 million years ago. In 2019 ...

A team of geologists investigated Easter Island’s age by dating zircon minerals, which turned out to highlight ancient unknowns. A mysterious mineral discovery on Easter Island could be up to 165 ...