EASTER ISLAND, Chile (Reuters) - In just 100 years, the emblematic stone sculptures that guard the coastline of Easter Island could be little more than simple rectangular blocks, conservation experts ...

Easter Island or Rapa Nui was first discovered by Polynesian voyagers between 800 and 1200 CE. The voyager were led by the legendary King Hotu Matu’a across the Pacific Ocean. It was on 5th April 1722 ...

For decades, the global image of Rapa Nui — Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as if the moai were incomplete sculptures missing their bodies. But this ...