Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Waves driven by rising seas could reach Ahu Tongariki -- the largest restored group of moai statues on Easter Island -- in less ...

The giant stone figures of Rapa Nui did not necessarily need logs, sledges or enormous labor forces to reach ceremonial ...

The stone giants of Rapa Nui are among the most recognizable monuments on Earth, and for generations most outsiders pictured them as disembodied heads gazing out from a remote Pacific hillside. That ...

And one of the last places these ancient humans made their way to was the southeastern Pacific island of Rapa Nui, known more ...

Conducting research on the main quarry of Easter Island is challenging in ordinary circumstances. The easternmost Polynesian island is a six-hour flight from the nearest airport and reaching parts of ...

Easter Island is named for the Sunday in 1722 when Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed his crew on the distant Pacific island. It’s been misunderstood by outsiders ever since. In recent decades, ...

Elgin Community College’s Bill Pelz Global Speaker Series will present “Archaeology Without Borders: Lessons from Rapa Nui (Easter Island)” on Thursday, April 8, highlighting the power of global ...

One of the most remote inhabited locations on Earth, Easter Island is famous for the thousand or so enigmatic, towering statues that dot its landscape, called moai. Earlier this month, a fire caused ...

The widespread claim that the ancient people of Easter Island experienced a societal collapse due to overexploitation of natural resources has been thrown into fresh doubt. Instead, there was a small ...