The British Museum is facing renewed calls to return a huge moai statue to Easter Island, sparked by a social media campaign by Chilean activists. Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui in the local ...

LONDON (CNN) — The British Museum is facing renewed calls to return a huge moai statue to Easter Island, sparked by a social media campaign by Chilean activists. Easter Island, known as Rapa ...

The British Museum reveals a fascinating collection of ancient artifacts that push the boundaries of historical understanding ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island ... the moai to walk to their designated places. Accounts of who actually possessed mana differ greatly. In 1919, Katherine Routledge, a British ...

The British Museum is the UK’s most popular tourist attraction, holding items including the Rosetta Stone, the Anglo-Saxon ship from Sutton Hoo and two stone moai from Rapa Nui (Easter Island).

The British Museum has regularly faced criticism ... better known as Easter Island in English. The first moai, Hoa Hakananai’a, is carved from basalt and has been dated to 1000-1200 while ...

Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive moai ... on Easter Sunday in 1722, the first European known to visit the island, but only stayed for one day. By the time British ...