Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam. Easter Island Ahu Tongariki. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam. Easter Island, Rano Kau. Courtesy of Flickr user Arian Zwegers.

“The island is planted with monstrous great statues, the work of I don’t know what race, today degenerate or vanished; its great remains an enigma.” Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer ...

The imposing statues that line the coast of Easter Island have been an enigma to ... one of the most burning questions surrounding the sculptures: why were they built? The volcanic stone figures ...

They were not individualized portrait sculptures, but standardized representations ... The word "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal ...

and it's almost as if these sculptures scattered around the slopes of Easter Island, large sculptures, are almost equivalent to these medieval churches. You don't actually need them all ...

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 ...

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 Swiss chocolate industry association Chocosuisse has expressed its disappointment over the Trump tariffs, even though it ...