According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has ... The real mystery—how a small and isolated population managed to transport ...

Our first visit was with the small group tour that began at Rano ... For the fifth must-see moai statue site on Easter Island, I'd like to highlight Ahu Akivi, constructed in the 16th Century.

Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with at least two layovers, take about 30 hours. However, standing face to face ...

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is one of the world's most remote places ...

The island’s population was too small, too primitive ... had toppled many of their statues and were neglecting those left standing. But the art of Easter Island still looms on the horizon ...

The statues were placed on specially ... they are colossal - this one in the British Museum is small! There is one unfinished in a quarry in Easter Island which is over 70 feet (20m) tall ...

Marc Shields hails from West Auckland but is a long-term resident of Rapa Nui - he tells Paddy what life is like on the ...

The statues were placed on specially ... they are colossal - this one in the British Museum is small! There is one unfinished in a quarry in Easter Island which is over 70 feet (20m) tall ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

He’s a Rapanui, an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped carve some of the hundreds of statues that stud the island’s ...

The statues were placed on specially ... they are colossal - this one in the British Museum is small! There is one unfinished in a quarry in Easter Island which is over 70 feet (20m) tall ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...