As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues ...

Easter Island has about 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered throughout the island. Most historians agree that the Moai statues were carved by Polynesians approximately 900 years ago.

You're investing that stone with some sort of emotive power, some sort of presence. That thing, that way of making a sculpture, is a religious activity. What actually the Easter Island sculpture ...

A controversial new theory suggests the iconic Easter Island statues could be thousands ... explorer Graham Hancock claims the mysterious stone heads were built more than 11,000 years ago ...

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island ... placed on the heads of the famous statues all around the coast of the island.

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos ... "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal upon which ...

What would have been the best way to move Easter Island's stone giants ... stable; each statue has a low center of gravity thanks to a large base and a narrow head. Pavel Pavel used a crew ...

You're investing that stone with some sort of emotive power, some sort of presence. That thing, that way of making a sculpture, is a religious activity. What actually the Easter Island sculpture ...