Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.

Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 13:40. On this Easter Sunday, we thought it would be fitting to take you on a journey to Easter Island.

Island, or Rapa Nui, is a unique and mysterious place, known for its moai statues and rich biodiversity. Despite its small ...

Experts have worked out how the ancient people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, were able to place massive stone hats on the island’s famous statues. A team of researchers that includes experts ...

By 1877, the island’s population dwindled to as little as 111.The population has rebounded, with an estimated 2,000 native people living there today in a population of about 7,000. But threats ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and ...

A spate of bad behavior by travelers on Easter Island, famed for its enormous statues known as moai, has spurred new conversations about overtourism and how visitors to the island should behave.

Linguists estimate Easter Island's first inhabitants arrived around AD 400, and most agree that they came from East Polynesia. The archaeological record suggests a somewhat later date of ...

Moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Sunday, Nov, 27, 2022. Each monolithic human figure carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Rapanui people ...

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population collapse, researchers propose in a new study that looks at archaeological rock gardens. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 13:32. Now we take you on a journey to Easter Island. It's one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, far into the Pacific, 2200 ...