Learn how they moved those massive maoi heads in this week's episode of Lost Cultures: Living Legacies. Perhaps you’ve heard of Easter Island. You may have even seen images of those giant stone ...

There are hundreds of huge stone statues on Rapa Nui — the so-called Moai. No one has ever conclusively found out why they exist. But researchers have long assumed that many thousands of people ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

Rapa Nui is part of Chile, although the island is 3,500 kilometres west of the mainland. Tapia is from Santiago, making him one of the few Chileans to join the roughly 100,000 people who visit ...

The people who first arrived at Rapa Nui around 1200 AD represented the final stage of an epic expansion of humanity. New advances in canoe building, sailing and navigation allowed Polynesians, who ...

To the Rapa Nui people, the risks are profound, says archeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project. “They cherish the memory of the people that have gone before ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

The Rapa Nui people of Easter Island are best known for carving hundreds of giant heads out of volcanic rock. For paleoclimatologists like Nick Balascio, the Rapa Nui are known for something else ...

It's famous for the enormous stone statues known as moai, which were erected between the 10th and 16th centuries by the Rapa Nui people. Take a tour with the gallery above. Need a break?

Rapa Nui people knew that bedrock had the ability to enrich the ground. They would break off pieces and place them on the surface and into the soil, giving the land missing minerals.

Its native people, who are also named the Rapa Nui, first arrived on the island’s shores between 1150 and 1280 CE, and lived in isolation until the arrival of Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen in ...