We got some excellent photos from outside the rock wall ... For the fifth must-see moai statue site on Easter Island, I'd like to highlight Ahu Akivi, constructed in the 16th Century.

A British astrophotographer has captured a jaw-dropping scene of the annular solar eclipse on Easter Island ... front of one of the island's iconic Moai human figure statues, Josh shot for ...

According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts for nearly 30 years—about 95 percent of the statues were ...

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is one of the world's most remote places ...

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 ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... and its placement - those are all things that matter." The statues were placed on specially built platforms ranged along ...