Ahu Akivi is situated nine miles (15 kilometers) from the quarry. It has been estimated that the moai at this site were probably transported and erected after AD 1400. The replica moai was created ...

What’s 63 square miles in size, 1,200 miles from the nearest landmass and home to over 900 monoliths that line its coast? Easter Island — also called Isla de Pascua and Rapa Nui — is famed worldwide ...

Wild horses graze on the grass nearby as I finish up an invigorating hike on Easter Island — officially known today as Rapa Nui in the local Polynesian dialect. I’m transfixed by the site before me.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... HANGA ROA, Easter Island — The horses, ragtag and thin, get a hug and a thumbs up. But the Big Heads, their lips pursed, their eyes empty, earn little more ...