Island heads’ are famous worldwide but also mysterious. Who made these stone statues? How were they transported? What do they ...

also known as Easter Island, never had a catastrophic population collapse, a new study proposes. The finding may upend decades of assumptions about how overexploitation of the landscape by the ...

Aforest fire that ripped through part of Easter Island has charred some of its ... Polynesian settlers who “created an unrivaled landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout the ...

However, the volcanic activity that created Easter Island’s landscape cannot have been occurring for 165 million years because the tectonic plate beneath the island is not that old. The only plausible ...

Photos from Easter Island were posted on social media showing the charred statues and smoke dotting the landscape. Image Fire damage in the Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island on Thursday ...

Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other ... which created an unrivaled landscape that continues to fascinate people throughout the world.” CNN’s Emily Dixon contributed to this ...

Chilean and local authorities were working to assess damage to famous stone statues on Easter Island after a fire sparked earlier this week on the remote territory. The fire, which began Tuesday ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, called moai. Earlier this month, a fire ...

In a dry lake bed, archaeologists on Rapa Nui—also known as Easter Island—have unearthed a previously unknown statue. The new find is one of the moai, the famous stone figures located around ...

For centuries, Western scholars have touted the fate of the native population on Easter Island ... analyzed the landscape to identify all the agricultural areas on the island.