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

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

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

Easter Island’s monumental stone figures have long seemed like a closed case, their story pinned to a familiar narrative of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

A previously unknown moai statue, one of Easter Island's massive carved monoliths, has been found buried beneath a dried up lake bed, Good Morning America reports. Easter Island, also known as Rapa ...