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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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 ...