Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture.

Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano ... of even the smallest moai, the statues were carved ...

or perhaps DRAG IT on its back. 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 ...

We believe that when this happens, the museum and its authorities will understand the importance of the moai as the soul of the island," he says. For Tuki, bringing Hoa Hakananai'a back to Rapa ...

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 ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... and no one is sure where exactly they came from. The oldest moai dates back to 1300, and among the Rapa Nui people ...

On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the ... Decades ago he himself helped get the moai at Anakena back upright.

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived ... by 1550. Moai carving and transport were in full swing from ...