New research reveals that ancient Easter Island was not isolated but played a key role in spreading ceremonial traditions ...

Island in the southern Pacific is one of the most geographically isolated places on Earth, but socially and culturally its ...

Just when you have come to terms with the immense list of things to see on the South American mainland, the continent's most magnificent islands speak up.

Researchers believe the giant moai statues on Easter Island were “walked” into place using their own immense weight as leverage.

South America is full of bucket list treasures both natural and manmade, from the salt flats of Bolivia to European cities like Buenos Aires.

A Tullahoma sculptor has turned garden-sized Moai statues into life-size replicas of the famed Easter Island figures.

A new Moai, one of Easter Island’s iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said ...

Scientists on Easter Island say they have uncovered another of its iconic moai head statues after a lake in an extinct volcano dried up. The monolithic head carving was found on its side submerged ...

A new Moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said.