Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with ...

Treatments include bamboo therapy, hot stone massage and volcanic ... to find ways to combat overtourism. Easter Island, home to about 6,000 people, faces water scarcity, and this influx of ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

“The island is planted with monstrous great statues, the work of I don’t know what race, today degenerate or vanished; its great remains an enigma.” Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer ...

They watch over this remote island from a remote age, but when Tuki stares at their faces ... when Dutch explorers landed on Easter Sunday in 1722, they met a Stone Age culture.

What would have been the best way to move Easter Island's stone giants, which weighed ... protect the moai's protruding belly. The moai lay face down on the sledge. Mulloy suggested that by ...

Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam ... roughed out the statues using stone tools called toki and employed sharp obsidian tools to make finer lines.