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

In case you can’t get enough of the little pygmy hippo Moo Deng from Thailand, there’s now an official song featuring the ...

Ancient DNA from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Refutes Best-Selling Population Collapse Theory Sep. 11, 2024 — Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with its gigantic statues and treeless landscape has fascinated ...

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

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

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.

Travel resumed to Easter Island last week after COVID-19 restrictions. Last weekend, the second regular flight was performed, thus reopening one of the most iconic tourist routes after sanitary ...

Researchers used DNA testing on 14 casts of victims found in the ruins of the Roman city destroyed in 79 AD. Using DNA taken from fragmented skeletal remains, they concluded an adult holding a ...

But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they seem — and these prevailing interpretations come from looking at the ancient world through modern eyes. "We were able to disprove or ...

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Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii after a volcanic eruption, overturning misconceptions about their genetic ...