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Easter Island

Polynesian island and special territory of Chile

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Dec 12, 2025
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Are the Easter Island's statues buried?

Archaeological and scientific reporting shows that the famous “heads” of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) are, in most cases, complete statues whose torsos and lower parts lie buried by centuries of sediment ...

Jan 19, 2026

ronga ronga writing system

Rongorongo is a corpus of carved glyphs from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) that looks like writing but remains undeciphered; fewer than 30 wooden objects survive and scholars disagree whether the signs rec...