These monoliths are just pieces of the Rapa Nui ... airline that flies out of Santiago into Hanga Roa, the capital of Easter Island. It takes about five-and-a-half hours to reach Hanga Roa ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

Even more astonishing were the objects which the inhabitants had made - the great monoliths of Easter Island are like nothing else in the Pacific, or indeed anywhere else, and they've become some ...

At the Easter Island site, the NOVA team drags the concrete ... Like many others, I had been distracted by scenes from antiquity showing giant monoliths being pulled on sleds.

A forest fire on Chile's Easter Island in early October damaged at least 177 Moai or sacred monolithic statues, Unesco said. The report followed an exploratory mission to the island on October 17 ...