Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

The mayor of Easter Island is determined to restrict vehicular access to heritage sites after a runaway truck collided with a sacred statue. The accident caused “incalculable” damage to one of the ...

Support for the British Museum coincides with an activist-led tour of "stolen art" that included the sculpture Hoa Hakananai’a. A basalt Easter Island Head figure, known as Hoa Hakananai'a, translated ...

State-of-the-art computer modeling shows the iconic monuments arose from numerous teams from different clans working ...

A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a new moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the island, according to ...

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When George Etzel called to say he had a 14-foot tall Easter Island head sculpted for his Alburnett farm, I wondered what he'd been thinking. After all, these famous heads are located on an island ...

You’re probably familiar with the dozens of huge sculptures of human-looking heads, known as Moai, on Easter Island. What you may not know is that there’s a piece of the Polynesian island right here ...

Ancestral Spirits: Easter Island Sculpture from the Art Museum Collection presents small sculptures that reflect the culture and capture the artistry of this ancient island. Easter Island, known today ...