It was a fishing vessel, which is not typically found in the Caribbean,” Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Commissioner ...

These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden under ... a soft volcanic ash found on Easter Island. Without metal tools, the artisans used their ...

The imposing statues that line the coast of Easter Island have been an enigma to ... they worked out that it was all to do with water. The team discovered only a small amount of freshwater is ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

Graham Hancock claims that the statues are over 11,000 years old and that Easter Island was inhabited about 12,000 years ago. Hancock's theory follows a 2008 study that found evidence of shrubs ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...