In their isolation, why did the early Easter Islanders undertake this colossal statue-building effort? Unfortunately, there is no written record (and the oral history is scant) to help tell the ...

Liberty is celebrating Easter for the first time, Easter is a Christian festival that celebrates new life and remembers Jesus. Easter can be celebrated by eating together as a family, and people ...

Easter is a Christian festival celebrated all over the world. Easter Sunday marks the day that Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead. He was executed three days before on Good Friday by ...

The best video game Easter eggs are worth hunting down. There's a smug sense of satisfaction in picking up cheeky cross-media references and nods that others might not. With the blink-and-you'll ...

By Aaron Couch Film Editor The King of Kings is set to rise next Easter. Blue Harbor Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the faith-based animated movie and intends to release it in ...

Mayor of Easter Island Pedro Edmunds told local media: "The damage caused by the fire can't be undone" A fire has damaged the enigmatic statues on Easter Island, with some of the charring said to ...

Researchers on Easter Island have found a previously undiscovered moai - one of the Pacific island's distinctive stone statues. It was found in a dried-out lake bed around the Rano Raraku volcano ...

The Easter Rising took place in Dublin, and a few outposts across the country, between Monday 24 April and Sunday 29 April, 1916. It was a rebellion against British rule in Ireland and was ...

Easter Island, located in the Pacific Ocean 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) from the coast of Chile, is best known for the enigmatic "moai" stone statues of humans carved by the Rapanui people. A ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.