Researchers believe the giant moai statues on Easter Island were “walked” into place using their own immense weight as ...

The Easter Island statues, or moai, show the amazing skills of the Rapa Nui people. Between 1100 and 1650, they made nearly 900 huge stone sculptures. These statues, weighing 10 to 12 metric tons ...

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 famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, are best known for their deep ... prehistoric Rapanui people made nearly 1,000 giant stone statues and carvings, the largest of which weigh ...

The mayor of Easter Island has called for motor restrictions ... The platform on which the statue was mounted was also destroyed. Stone statues were carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui people ...

I didn’t expect to see its famous moai statues face down in the dirt ... But the most surprising thing about my visit to Easter Island, known locally as Rapa Nui, was watching the moon do ...

and the statues themselves, had to traverse several miles over very rough and hilly terrain. What would have been the best way to move Easter Island's stone giants, which weighed, on average ...

The moai were carved with stone tools ... The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui—native dancers in body paint, less so. Some 2,000 Rapanui live ...

On Easter Island, such an eclipse could make for doubly spectacular images, should there be light enough for skilled ...

Off the coast of Chile, Carrie Tait steps away from the tourists to soak up Easter Island’s most captivating spots ...