and you see it at eye level. As we continued eastward along the path, around the southern edge of the crater, we came upon ...

Recent research on Easter Island, published in the Plos One journal ... and restoring the moai’s eyes on Ahu Ko Te Riku. The remains of Mulloy and later his wife Emily were buried within view ...

the islanders began toppling the moai. By the 19th century none were standing. Easter Island’s landscape acquired the aura of tragedy that, in the eyes of Diamond and many others, it retains today.

According to a survey by archeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, the Easter Islanders successfully transported 288 moai statues to various ahu platforms around the island. We're only proposing that you ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

Archaeologist and Easter Island expert Jo Anne Van Tilburg believes the moai were built to honor ancestors and chieftains, or for ritual use to commune with gods, she told PBS. National Geographic ...

Easter Island is known for these iconic Moai statues, as well as mysteries surrounding the inhabitants of the island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

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

Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just ...