As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues ...

A new theory about who built the iconic human-like figures on Easter Island has sent shockwaves through the archaeological community. Most historians agree that the stone structures were ...

(photo credit: f11photo. Via Shutterstock) A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter Island has shocked the archaeological community. Graham Hancock claims that the statues ...

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On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

Stone wall at Ahu Vinapu, Easter Island. There is little data to support Heyerdahl. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who is unconvinced by Heyerdahl's theory, notes that "all archaeological, linguistic ...

You're investing that stone with some sort of emotive power, some sort of presence. That thing, that way of making a sculpture, is a religious activity. What actually the Easter Island sculpture ...

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 ...

Why? It crosses Easter Island (Rapa Nui), known for its giant stone statues of human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people between 1250 and 1500. Many are set on stone platforms called ahu around ...

Hoteliers on Easter Island know better than to compete with ... a replica of an ancient stone circle once used to hold water and protect crops from the wind. Treatments include bamboo therapy ...