The governor of Easter Island has urged the British Museum to return a huge statue, kept in London for 150 years, claiming that the English “have our soul.” The 8-foot-tall basalt figure, known as Hoa ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai ... Routledge, a British archaeologist who lived ...

Image caption, Hoa Hakananai’a is one of two Easter Island statues in the British Museum collection The Moai were carved by the people of Rapa Nui between AD1100 and AD1600. The two removed by ...

Tattooist Andreas "Panda" Pakarati displays a wooden moai he's just ... figures,” the British mariner Capt. James Cook wrote in 1774. He freely speculated on how the statues might have been ...

“Easter Islanders’ ancestors have been unfairly accused by Westerners of being primitive and warlike, for toppling statues - or moai - and for over-exploiting ... Dr Croucher, whose research is funded ...