2002 Movie"2,000 miles away from civilization, the fascinating Easter Island in the South Pacific, formed by volcanic rock, is famous for its coastal statues." ...

In 1955, it was discovered that Moai, the ancient and mysterious giant heads on Easter Island, had very large bodies buried underneath the ground. Now, scientists and archaeologists believe they know ...

Hancock argues that Polynesian settlers encountered a pre-existing population, evidenced by banana remains from at least ...

Poetic look at the history and mysteries of Easter Island through its landscapes its mythical sculptures as well as its parties ceremonies with abundant songs and dances which become the true ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited ... The purpose of the moai remains a mystery to researchers. A 2019 study published in PLOS One, a journal by the Public Library of Science ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

A shocking new theory regarding the Easter Island heads could rewrite the history of the iconic statues. It's now been claimed that the carvings are actually thousands of years older than ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...