Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter Sunday in 1722, the first European known to visit the island, but only ...

The Moai statues of Easter Island have some of the best views of the night sky on Earth. Sometimes a photo can captivate so powerfully that you are transported to another place and time.

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues ... the earliest statues. Potentially this could rewrite Polynesian history”.

The crops failed, the population dwindled to almost nothing, and the giant statues were felled by time and tsunamis. For generations, that has been the moral of Easter Island – that human ...

The Parthenon Sculptures, Rosetta Stone and Benin Bronzes are just some of the ‘contested objects’ in Bloomsbury institution’s collection, Joe Sommerlad reports ...

Easter Island, a territory of Chile, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia, whose native name is Rapa Nui. It is famous for its archaeological sites, including nearly 900 monumental statues ...

The flights hub is mainly used by tourists visiting Easter Island's famous Moai statues. It expanded when the US modernised the airport during the Cold War and to accommodate space shuttles.

12, 2024. (Kon-Tiki Museum press service via AP) In this photo provided by the Kon-Tiki Museum press service on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, a person holds an artifact taken from Easter Island, also ...

Icons of American liberty and freedom, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island have long been a mainstay of the New York skyline and its history. Stretching back to the Dutch colonial settlement in the ...

On Easter Island, Felldrake and Sheldgoose convince the Moai to take a vacation from their duty of preventing evil Lava Lizards from incinerating the world. Donald refuses to go with the Caballeros as ...