A smooth layered sand cylinder sliced in a clean curve.

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

D mapping reveals Easter Island's iconic statues were built by competing family clans, not centralized rulers.

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 ...

Some islands feel like they belong to our world; others seem to have slipped in from another dimension. Far from the usual ...

Carl studied a variety of possibilities to decipher the mystery of how the statues were moved to where they stand today in the island.

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

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, ...

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

Unlike other studies, which think they were crafted by a powerful tribe, it's thought that individual clans and families ...

Using a combination of 3D modelling and real-life experiments, scientists have confirmed that the statues may have 'walked' ...