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

A groundbreaking new study provides compelling evidence that Easter Island's enormous moai statues were built by competing ...

Archeologists have used drones and photogrammetry to create a map of the quarry that produced 95 of Easter Island's statues.

The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. In February, archaeologists found a previously undiscovered moai statue in a dry lake bed. Easter Island is one of the most remote ...

New moai discovered on Easter Island, according to Ma'u Henua vice president. A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a ...

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were constructed and the society that made them.

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry lake ...

A new moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said. "This ...