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

The Easter Island statues, or moai, show the amazing skills of the Rapa Nui people. Between 1100 and 1650, they made nearly ...

Hancock thinks settlers first arrived on Easter Island 12,000 years ago and stayed until Polynesian settlers arrived. He believes the Moai heads were carved over 11,000 years ago, supporting the ...

Polynesian seafarers first arrived on Rapa Nui approximately 900 years ago, and have long made researchers curious why the huge statues were placed where they are.

"But the Rapanui [the Polynesian peoples indigenous to Rapa Nui] went beyond that and actually carved the base of the statues and added certain angles in so that it was a better version for moving ...

A new moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said.

A fire on Easter Island has caused significant damage to a series of precious statues carved out by a Polynesian tribe more than 500 years ago. Easter Island has almost 1,000 of the megaliths ...

The fire has burned more than 247 acres of the Pacific island, where hundreds of haunting monolithic statues, called moai, have stood for centuries. By Johnny Diaz Some of the ancient monolithic ...

Easter Island was inhabited by Polynesian groups for centuries before the nation state of Chile annexed it in 1888. The island lies 2,175 miles off of Chile’s coast in the Pacific.

A fire on Easter Island has caused significant damage to a series of precious statues carved out by a Polynesian tribe more than 500 years ago. Easter Island has almost 1,000 of the megaliths ...