Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, has only a small amount of freshwater available ... Most of the 900 statues were constructed along the coast of the island. The reason behind their location ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

Our first visit was with the small group tour that began at Rano ... For the fifth must-see moai statue site on Easter Island ...

The famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, are best known for their deep ... could be accomplished using only a few ropes and small groups of people could further debunk the earlier notions ...

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 ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are ...

He’s a Rapanui, an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped carve some of the hundreds of statues that stud the island’s ...

However, not all Easter Island experts agree that the small freshwater seeps were important enough to warrant the massive statues, The Guardian reported. Archaeologist and Easter Island expert Jo ...

Easter Island, a territory of Chile, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia, whose native name is Rapa Nui. It is famous for its archaeological sites, including nearly 900 monumental statues ...

This is the conclusion of an international team of geologists who made a mysterious find on Easter Island, the Chilean special territory in the Pacific that is famous for its giant statues.

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data ...