Easter 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 ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and ...

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population collapse, researchers propose in a new study that looks at archaeological rock gardens. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

A new theory about who built the iconic human-like figures on Easter Island has sent shockwaves through the archaeological community. Most historians agree that the stone structures were ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, called moai. Earlier this month, a fire ...

This is the conclusion of an international team of geologists who made a mysterious find on Easter Island, the Chilean special territory in the Pacific that is famous for its giant statues.

A new moai was discovered after a volcano crater lake dried up. Source Comunidad Ma'u Henua HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock A new moai was found on Easter Island in the ...

Stone statues in a fire-damaged area of Rapa Nui National Park, Easter Island, Chile, October 6, 2022. RAPANUI MUNICIPALITY SHOWS MOAIS/ AFP "Here are my moai!" Vaihere Tuki Haoa walked toward a ...

On Oct. 2, 2024, a few hundred eclipse chasers will be on the volcanic Easter Island — called Rapa Nui by natives and one of the most remote places on Earth — to witness an annular solar eclipse.

Located over 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, Easter Island is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands. It's famous for the enormous stone statues known as moai, which were erected ...