The recent discovery of the moai’s true builders comes not long after scientists from Binghamton University and the ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

Carl studied a variety of possibilities to decipher the mystery of how the statues were moved to where they stand today in ...

A sweeping 3D analysis of Rapa Nui’s main moai quarry shows that the island’s iconic statues weren’t produced by a single ruling authority, but by many small, independent groups working simultaneously ...

Easter Island’s Rapa Nui statues were carved by several independent groups, including competing families, without any central authority overseeing them, according to a new study. At such a critical ...

The mystery of exactly who built Easter Island's towering stone heads may finally have been solved. Scientists have ...

Unfinished moai attached to bedrock by “keels” along their backs demonstrate how carvers worked underneath from both sides until figures were separated from the source material. This production stage, ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

Using a combination of 3D modelling and real-life experiments, scientists have confirmed that the statues may have 'walked' ...

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 ...

Unlike other studies, which think they were crafted by a powerful tribe, it's thought that individual clans and families ...

About 30 wooden objects from the remote island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, in the South Pacific Sea bear an engraved script that remains untranslated. Experts have long wondered whether ...