Hancock argues that Polynesian settlers encountered a pre-existing population, evidenced by banana remains from at least ...

Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water scarcity, and this influx of travelers placed a "huge burden" on the land, CNN said in 2019. To prevent a covid catastrophe, officials ...

A controversial new theory suggests the iconic Easter Island statues could be thousands of years older than previously believed. British writer and explorer Graham Hancock claims the mysterious stone ...

Between A.D. 1000 and 1600, the people of Easter Island, a small island isolated in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, carved about 900 massive statues from an ancient volcano. These austere-faced ...

Van Tilburg concludes, "The moai thus mediates between sky and earth, people and chiefs, and chiefs and gods." The word "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat ...

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 ...