Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, ...

Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast ... and how they created these incredible statues. The Moai statues of Easter Island are a key part of the island’s history and ancient civilizations.

Visiting Easter Island requires a six-hour flight from Santiago, Chile. Only one airline ... The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. The statues, which are carved ...

Easter Island is known for these iconic Moai statues, as well as mysteries surrounding the inhabitants of the island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

In one instance, a platform even reuses the head of a Moai statue ... from the coast of Chile. Both Hancock and archaeologists agree that how anyone ever reached Easter Island is nothing short ...

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

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 ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just ...

A forest fire on Chile's Easter Island in early October damaged at least 177 Moai or sacred monolithic statues, Unesco said. The report followed an exploratory mission to the island on October 17 ...