The South Pacific nation of New Zealand is the ancestral home of the Maori, sea-faring settlers from the eastern Polynesia. With its unique flora and fauna, New Zealand offers a large array of plants ...

Summerhill Recreational Farm not only provides a variety of trails for hikers and bikers, and breathtaking views of the Bay of Plenty, it offers a powerful history lesson. The farm's well-preserved pa ...

Our planet’s magnetic field is constantly changing and evolving, making it impossible to know how the field behaved at any given point in the past. The only real way to study ancient magnetism is ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Maori culture is an integral part of life in Aotearoa, or New Zealand, as it came to be known.

A large well-formed Maori adze, made of argillite, was found at Lake Onoke by a woman picking up driftwood and is being kept at Aratoi Museum of Art and History in Masterton. The mysterious history of ...

The preserved tattooed heads and skeletal remains of 107 Maori and Moriori are set to return home more than a century after collectors took them to line the shelves of American museums. Te Papa is ...

As early as the 18th century, tribes in New Zealand have been engaging in trade that provided them resources for crafting cloaks and donning feathery fashion. Researchers studied the Maori tribe's ...

New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed Nga Wai hono i te po as their new queen and eighth monarch, to succeed her father King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII who passed away at 69 after a heart ...

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An emotional Haka was performed on Saturday outside the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, where 41 died in Friday's attack on two of the city's mosques. It took the shooter seven minutes to travel to ...