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

Easter Island’s Rapa Nui statues were carved by several independent groups, including competing families, without any central ...

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were ...

Scientists believe the statues may have "walked" Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and ...

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues. Using a combination of physics, 3D modeling and ...

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 ...

A first-of-its-kind high-resolution 3D model now lets anyone explore Easter Island’s Rano Raraku quarry up close. The interactive model reveals how the island’s iconic moai statues were created across ...

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen has an exquisite track record, having “discovered” both the Polynesian islands of Bora Bora and Maupiti. However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he is most ...

Easter Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage. In an ancient quarry on top of a volcano on a remote ...

When the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed on Easter Island in 1722, he was puzzled by how the indigenous islanders could have transported the hundreds of colossal stone statues he found studding ...