Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... during a visit by Norway's King Harald to return the artifacts. The COVID-19 pandemic halted all activities in 2020, according to the Kon-Tiki Museum.

According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts for nearly 30 years—about 95 percent of the statues were ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Oslo to Chile’s remote territory of Easter Island in the mid ...