Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture.

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people ... The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. The statues, which are carved ...

In the heart of Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island, a species long thought lost is taking root once again. The toromiro ...

A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...

But could we ever imagine her in one piece now? Standing on the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui are around 900 carved statues. European explorers renamed Rapa Nui as Easter Island, and the ...

or Rapa Nui, the name given by the indigenous people to their island in the 1860s. Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who has studied the moai for many years, believes the statues may have been ...

The statues were placed on specially built platforms ranged along the coastline, a sacred geography reflecting the tribal divisions of Rapa Nui. Moving these statues would have taken days ...

monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just pieces of the Rapa Nui puzzle. The island has a mysterious past, and it is not clear when ...

He’s a Rapanui, an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped carve some of the hundreds of statues that stud the island’s ...

Method: Tied statue on its back to a sledge (sled ... suggested to date are daunting-to-impossible on the rolling Rapa Nui terrain." Moai: Concrete replica with the dimensions of a statistically ...

Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Hoa Hakananai'a statue (made between 1000 and 1200). Stone; from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) Today we're on an island far out in the Pacific Ocean ...