Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast, only 14 miles long. Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are ...

and you see it at eye level. As we continued eastward along the path, around the southern edge of the crater, we came upon ...

The famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, are best known for their deep-set eyes and long ears ... the top of the ancestor heads, called Moai. The largest of these colossal red hats ...

the islanders began toppling the moai. By the 19th century none were standing. Easter Island’s landscape acquired the aura of tragedy that, in the eyes of Diamond and many others, it retains today.

I didn’t expect to see its famous moai statues face down in the dirt ... But the most surprising thing about my visit to Easter Island, known locally as Rapa Nui, was watching the moon do ...

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 ...

In 1960, an earthquake in Chile triggered a tidal wave, which hit the coast of Easter Island at Tongariki. The tidal wave sent the 15 Tongariki moai—some of which weigh 30 tons—several hundred ...

The mayor of Easter Island has called for motor restrictions ... About 1,000 of the figures - known as moai - exist on the island, which hosts about 12,000 tourists a month.

The only other place it's viewable from will be Easter Island, 3,700 kilometers) off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. It's home to about 1,00 monliths called moai that stare at the ocean ...