900 CE – 1722 CE · 2 sites
Continent Record
Southernmost Known Site in South America
1100 CE – 1722 CE
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is famed for its colossal stone moai, crafted by a Polynesian society that flourished from roughly 1100 to 1722 CE, leaving a cryptic legacy of monumental art and ecological transformation.
Most-Visited Ancient Site in Oceania
900 CE – 1722 CE
The most remote inhabited island on Earth and the home of the moai — over 900 monumental stone figures, some weighing 80 tonnes, carved and transported by the Rapa Nui people across a tiny Pacific island to stand on ceremonial platforms as the embodied presence of ancestral chiefs.
