A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter Island has shocked the archaeological community. Graham Hancock claims that the statues are over 11,000 years old and that Easter Island ...

Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the famous large stone heads - that are believed to have been carved 900 years ago.

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) may be a remote speck in the vast Pacific Ocean, but this volcanic island has much to offer travelers. From the iconic moai statues that dot the landscape to natural ...

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 ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

Your final tQ subscriber download of the year comes from none other than our albums of the year chart toppers Ex-Easter Island Head, who speak to Patrick Clarke about ...

Travel resumed to Easter Island last week after COVID-19 restrictions. Last weekend, the second regular flight was performed, thus reopening one of the most iconic tourist routes after sanitary ...

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...

The only other place it's viewable from will be Easter Island, 3,700 kilometers) off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. It's home to about 1,00 monliths called moai that stare at the ocean ...