Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...

Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...

The ancient people of Rapa Nui likely used ropes to rock the giant statues in an upright, zig-zag motion along specially designed, concave roads. This method is said to be both energy-efficient and ...

The mystery of how the roughly 130,000 pound statues traveled from quarry to resting place may be solved.

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we ...

"Both busts are presented in a stone sculpture design, accompanied by bases that feature characteristics of stone columns. A highlight on these "Frozen" busts is the national flower of Arendelle, the ...

The T-shaped pillar is the first with a face to be found in the Stone Age archaeological sites of Turkey’s Taş Tepeler ...

An effort to bridge the cultural divide between Santa Rosa and its sister city in South Korea has run into its own cultural cross-currents. Santa Rosa's City Council agreed Tuesday to accept two ...

Archaeologists in ancient city of Nineveh, Iraq have uncovered colossal lamassu statues and intricate reliefs from an ...

It’s fascinating that most people are totally unaware of this history,” Republican state Representative David J. Nagel said.