For centuries, the giant moai statues of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) have stood as silent witnesses to a mystery. How did a small island community move multi‑ton stone figures across rough volcanic ...

Rapa Nui, 2,200 miles west of the mainland, is as rugged as it is remote — and an exploration offers blustery hikes, volcanic craters and villages of rock-hewn moai. The 15 moai at Ahu Tongariki make ...

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed. The ...

Around 1550, life on Rapa Nui began changing in ways long misunderstood. New research reveals that a severe drought, lasting more than a century, dramatically reduced rainfall on the already ...

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