Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast, only 14 miles long. Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are ...

Because of these stone heads, Easter Island has remained one of anthropology’s most cherished mysteries. In a new book, Island of Death (J. J. Augustin; $7), Dr. Werner Wolff, professor of ...

The head is traditionally thought to contain ... South Coast of Rapa Nui The members of the Spanish expedition to Easter Island in 1770 were the first to record their descriptions of the scoria ...

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 ...