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

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

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

Easter Island's iconic moai statues have long puzzled the world, but new research hints at a surprising twist in their ...

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

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

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 ...

Last April, community members accepted an invitation to attend something new called a Walking Moai with Blue Zones Project. Moai is a term from Okinawa, Japan, one of the original Blue Zones areas, ...

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, ...

Providing an easy way to get moving, Blue Zones Project Yuba Sutter hosts a free Walking Moai every Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Yuba Sutter Marketplace in Yuba City. According to Alexandria Jones, ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa — A ribbon cutting for the completion of new Muscatine sidewalks was held in Weed Park during the Blue Zone's Fall Walking Moai Launch on Oct. 28. The purpose of the new sidewalk was ...

WATERLOO --- Cedar Valley residents are invited to the fourth public kickoff or "launch" of walking moai teams on Tuesday at Lafayette Park, 1815 Lafayette St. Sponsored by the Waterloo Blue Zones ...