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 ...

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

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

Scientists have uncovered how ancient Easter Islanders moved massive moai statues. Instead of dragging them flat, the statues ...

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

Despite standing on one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth, the iconic moai of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) can now be experienced from the comfort of your home.

Learn how several working groups with their own carving techniques built the iconic moai of Easter Island.

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

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

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were ...

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of ...