This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture. The moai were built mainly between 1400 and 1650 A.D. They show the amazing skill and hard work of the Rapa Nui ...

Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...

The famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, are best known for ... suggest the Rapanui people built ramps in front of forward-leaning Moai. They then rolled the hats till they reached ...

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 ...

On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island ... moai moving, the islanders shifted monumental amounts of rock—but into their fields, not out. They ...

As sea levels rise and the climate changes, Mahani Teave's island home and its culture are increasingly under threat. Easter Island ... dotted with more than 900 moai, the monolithic stone ...

the people of Easter Island, a small island isolated in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, carved about 900 massive statues from an ancient volcano. These austere-faced giants, called moai ...