Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

Four members of the delegation sent from Easter Islands spent the night at the Oslo museum as part of a ritual ceremony to ...

As sea levels rise and the climate changes, Mahani Teave's island home and its culture are increasingly under threat. Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is one of the world's most remote inhabited island ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum ...

Norway has returned human remains to the Easter Island. Pictured is a view of the famous stone statues of the Rapa Nui ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

When Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl visited Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the 1950s, he conducted months of excavations that revealed thousands of items he was allowed to take back to Norway for ...

Researchers on Easter Island have found a previously undiscovered moai - one of the Pacific island's distinctive stone statues. It was found in a dried-out lake bed around the Rano Raraku volcano ...