Archaeologists and historians have debated the island's history, but it is believed ... Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts ...

Island has been a source of fascination for historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not ...

A controversial new theory suggests the iconic Easter Island statues could be thousands of years older than previously ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter ... the island has been the subject of intrigue. Who built the Moai? How did they move such huge statues without ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch ... other methods for moving the statues, using various combinations of log rollers, sledges and ropes. Trying to sort out the facts of the island’s past has ...

They settled both Hawaii and New Zealand, and between 700 and 900, they got to Rapa Nui - and so brought to an end one immense chapter of human history, for Easter Island was possibly the last ...

and the statues remain sacred vessels. Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter Sunday in 1722, the first European known to visit the island, but only stayed for one day. By the time ...

Unfortunately, there is no written record (and the oral history is scant ... "A total of 887 monolithic statues has been located by the survey to date on Easter Island...397 are still in situ ...

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 ...

They settled both Hawaii and New Zealand, and between 700 and 900, they got to Rapa Nui - and so brought to an end one immense chapter of human history, for Easter Island was possibly the last ...