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

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

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

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

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

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

Binghamton University archaeologists have released a new interactive, 3D model of the Moai statue quarry on Rapa Nui (Easter ...