The stone statues on Easter Island (Diamond, 2005) have a lot to teach us about education. The hundreds of stone statues on Easter Island have been one of the greatest mysteries on earth.

Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect ...

Easter Island, over 2,000 miles (3,219 km) from the coast of Chile, has over a thousand stone statues, giant heads that were carved centuries ago by the island's inhabitants, which have brought it ...

Experts have worked out how the ancient people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, were able to place massive stone hats on the island’s famous statues. A team of researchers that includes experts ...

Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 13:40. ... What they found has fascinated and confounded the world ever since, giant stone statues that tower over the island's landscape.

Most everyone is familiar with the enigmatic stone heads of Easter Island, the massive carved rocks that sit on stone platforms on the coast and lie scattered across the landscape.

Rapa Nui, Chile—or Easter Island—has monumental statues with massive, stone hats placed on top of them. A recent analysis of these stone hats, known as pukao, shows that the petroglyphs etched ...

EASTER ISLAND STONE HEADS ARE 'DYING' ... Easter Island is among the world's most isolated inhabited islands with about 4,000 inhabitants. It lies 2,237 miles west of Chile, ...

An idea suggesting massive stone statues that encircle Easter Island may have been "walked" into place has run into controversy. In October 2012, researchers came up with the "walking" theory by ...

Easter Island is on lots of bucket lists. Who wouldn’t want the chance to visit one of the world’s most remote islands and take selfies with those ancient, stoic stone faces? Yet there’s ...

Sharpened stones previously viewed as spear points wielded by warring Easter Islanders actually served as general-purpose tools, researchers say. Early European visitors to Easter Island, also ...