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New study changes what we know about Easter Island's famous heads, ending 'strange argument'
We all know about those famous heads on Easter Island, but their origins are still largely a mystery. These large stone ...
Archaeologists Make Groundbreaking Easter Island Discovery
Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via Ancient Origins) has rewritten previously held beliefs about the remote society of Rapa Nui, also ...
A New Study Has Upended One of Easter Island’s Greatest Myths
A new study suggests that the island of Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, didn’t develop in the extreme manner of ...
The Spectator Australia5d
Was Easter Island less isolated than we previously thought?
It’s hard to exaggerate how isolated Easter Island was before its discovery by Polynesian sailors eight or nine centuries ago ...
IFLScience on MSN5d
Easter Island Was Never As Isolated As We Thought – Study Puts That "Strange Argument" To Bed
Easter Island is the scene of one of the great archaeological mysteries, as a unique monolithic ritual culture emerged and ...
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GERRY ADAMS: Reject Dublin government's shameful betrayal of sacred GPO site
THE Dublin GPO and the streets and laneways around it are forever linked with the Easter Rising of 1916. This is a battlefield site of major ...