From a nine-month trek to a 20,000-mile motorcycle odyssey, these books will transport you across continents encourage you to ...

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

Nature doesn’t follow blueprints, and sometimes the result is strange enough to stop you in your tracks. Around the world, ...

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 ...

The biggest mystery is how these statues were transported and erected, as the Rapa Nui people used only simple stone and wooden tools during this period. 9. Terracotta Army ...

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 ...

For a while, researchers thought that the Rapa Nui moved the moai on sleds, until real-life experiments with replicas showed that this would have required some 1,500 people to pull off.

By the 1880s, the population had dwindled to just 111 people, and the island became a sheep ranch. Outsiders, not the islanders, likely triggered the rapid decimation of the Rapa Nui culture.

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 ...

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 ...