Island has been a source of fascination for historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not ...

Their spirits were said to temporarily live inside the statues, and the statues remain sacred vessels. Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter ... the island opened up to tourists ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped ... pianist brings music education home Mahani Teave grew up on one of the most remote islands ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

A controversial new theory suggests the iconic Easter Island statues could be thousands of ... your browser across other ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter ... the island has been the subject of intrigue. Who built the Moai? How did they move such huge statues without ...

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 ...