As for the statues long assumed to have been abandoned as they were being transported to the coastline to be displayed in ...

In his “Island at the Edge of the World,” the British archaeologist Mike Pitts delves into the misconceptions and legends ...

For decades, the global image of Rapa Nui — Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as if the moai were incomplete sculptures missing their bodies. But this ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

Scientists just found something new on Easter Island, and it messes with a bunch of theories people treated like facts for ...