About 2,000 miles off the coast of South America sits the Chile-governed Easter Island ... Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, having spent many hours planning to make the most of a week on this ...

Known for its mysterious stone Moai statues, Easter Island has a somewhat enigmatic history, largely due to the fact that ...

The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui—native dancers in body paint, less so. Some 2,000 Rapanui live on the island, which belongs to Chile.

By Cook’s time, the islanders had toppled many of their statues and were neglecting those left standing. But the art of Easter Island still ... at the University of Chile in Santiago, he is ...

Until 1966, Chile continued to lease Easter Island to the Williamson ... greater protection of the sacred Moai head statues. Erected during the island’s Ancestor Cult epoch, which continued ...

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 ...

Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues ... Chile. LATAM is the only airline that flies out of Santiago into Hanga Roa, the capital of Easter Island.

There is a Rapa-nui wedding ceremony, complete with loincloth, awaiting you on Chile’s Easter ... Moai statues and archaeological sites. Tourism, the main industry on the island, is also a ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...