Easter Island and Gobekli Tepe—be connected by more than coincidence? This video explores striking symbolic parallels between the Moai statues and Gobekli Tepe’s Pillar 43, including shared carvings, ...

It takes six hours to get to this remote destination that has almost no phone service, rolling green hills and volcanoes.

Easter Island, long famous for its stone statues, now offers another legacy—one buried in the very sands beneath your feet. Research findings are available online in the journal ESS Open Archive.

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...

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Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is a small island south of Chile, home to about 8,600 people. It's known for the huge historic statues, called Moai, which are dotted around the island. Marc ...

We ascended to a verdant plateau marked by hundreds of natural pillars that had been thrust straight upward, like the ancient moai statues of Easter Island, by the tectonic movement of the Taurus ...

One of the more visually striking sets hails from Chile. Inspired by the famous Moai statues of Easter Island (Isla de Pascua), this set is inlaid with Lapis Lazuli, a deep-blue semi-precious stone ...