While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

About 30 wooden objects from the remote island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, in the South Pacific Sea bear an engraved script that remains untranslated. Experts have long wondered whether ...

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is one of the most isolated places in the world, located around 3,600 miles off the coast of Chile, which annexed the territory in 1888. The eponymous island is named for ...

A team of philologists, chemists, environmental physicists and engineers affiliated with several institutions across Europe has found evidence of an undeciphered script on wooden tablets created on ...

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ACCORDING to a letter from Sir Denison Ross in the Times of Sept. 21, M. Guillaume Hevesy, a Hungarian resident in Paris, has discovered that a number of the signs of the prehistoric Indian script on ...

Located more than two thousand miles from the coast of Chile, Rapa Nui (the island’s native name) offers a world of mysteries that have remained unanswered for centuries. Joseph attempts to explain ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves best: ...