In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with ...

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

Easter Island Ahu Tongariki ... roughed out the statues using stone tools called toki and employed sharp obsidian tools to make finer lines. The real mystery—how a small and isolated population ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen ... To early travelers, the spectacle of immense stone figures, at once serenely godlike and savagely human, was almost beyond imagining.

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 ...

Stone wall at Ahu Vinapu, Easter Island. There is little data to support Heyerdahl. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who is unconvinced by Heyerdahl's theory, notes that "all archaeological, linguistic ...

Hoteliers on Easter Island know better than to compete with ... a replica of an ancient stone circle once used to hold water and protect crops from the wind. Treatments include bamboo therapy ...

Is there a more enigmatic island than Rapa Nui (Easter Island), deforested and depopulated and studded with giant stone statues? We know it transformed from palm-clad to treeless within a few ...

Documentary exploring how new evidence is challenging everything we thought we knew about Easter Island and the nearly 900 giant stone statues scattered across this remote Pacific island.