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 ...

A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...

Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just pieces of the Rapa Nui ...

Living on a remote, barren isle bestowed with few resources, the Rapanui needed to combine ingenious design with flawless sculpting to move the massive moai without any machinery. Nearly 20 years ...

It’s a tiny, windswept place, famed for its colossal Moai – mysterious stone figures that each weigh more than a Boeing 737 plane. For years, the island has been the subject of intrigue.

The 16-foot moai head once spouted fire from its perch outside the beloved Polynesian restaurant. Now it needs a lot of work ...