Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought. Geography textbooks describe the Earth's ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) A remote, bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, has mystified the world ever since the first ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island – Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations. Located in the South Pacific, Easter Island is home to ...

MYSTERIES OF EASTER ISLAND by Francis Maziere. 224 pages. Norton. $6.95. An Athens in Antarctica might be easier to explain than the riddling ruins on Easter Island. More than 2,000 miles from the ...

A new book challenges the previously accepted theory about how the giant stone statues on Easter Island, or “moai,” came to be. The inhabitants of the island when Dutch explorers visited in 1722 were ...

The monumental statues of Easter Island, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island's barren landscape, have been a great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans. How ...

Everyone knows about Easter Island’s enigmatic stone heads, up to 30ft high, gazing out silently into the vast heart of the Pacific. They seem unfathomable, challenging us to explain their ancient ...

The huge stone heads, some of them weighing 50 tons, stare out at the empty Pacific with bland, archaic, sneering expressions. No one knows who carved these enigmatic faces—or why, or how, or when.

Fall is a great time to read about historical mysteries. Some were solved during the late 20th century, thanks to advances in science and technology. One obvious example is the location of the Titanic ...