Eighty-eight years ago this month, Amelia Earhart attempted to become the first woman to fly around the world when she vanished over the Pacific Ocean. Soon, a team of researchers will be launching an ...

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 suggests that the island of Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, didn’t develop in the extreme manner of ...

On the 88th anniversary of the disappearance of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, researchers announced a renewed effort to ...

Purdue University, which helped fund her historic 1937 flight, said it will send a team to a remote island in the South ...