Archaeologists working on Easter Island say a recent discovery could change long-standing ideas about the island’s past. The ...

Everyone knows about the enigmatic statues scattered across Easter Island, but the travel destination is worth visiting for many other reasons.

Experts are shedding new light on the demise of the civilization that built the famous statues on Easter Island. It has long been thought that the construction of the statues, or moai, ended around ...

Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone giants move.

A dig at Rano Raraku, the quarry where Easter Island's statues were hewn out of rock, is casting new light on a remarkable discovery forgotten for decades. In 1919 pictures of the first excavations by ...

Nearly 1,000 mysterious, monolithic moai statues have been drawing visitors to Easter Island—a 63-square-mile speck in the ocean, 2,100 miles from continental Chile—for more than a century. Whether ...

No one knows where Easter Island is, and that’s just the start of the island’s immutable mysticism. When I told people I was traveling to the small island this spring, people would say, “The place ...

For centuries, the Moai statues of Easter Island have stood in silence—but what if their builders left behind clues we’re only now beginning to understand? This changes everything.