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

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 monumental stone figures have long seemed like a closed case, their story pinned to a familiar narrative of ...

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

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

The island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is famous for its moai. These giant, anthropomorphic monoliths have long puzzled anthropologists, driving extensive research into their ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 ...

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

How did Easter Island’s famed moai statues get to where they are? It’s a question that has long fascinated historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and tourists alike. Now, a team of researchers at ...

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the most impressive artifacts of ancient Polynesian civilization. How the statues ...

The statues, which were carved and placed on the South Pacific's Easter Island between the 12th and 17th centuries, have puzzled travelers since the first European contact was made there in 1722.

The mystery of the Moai stone heads has eluded onlookers for centuries — and now, researchers say they finally know how they got there. The statues, which were carved and placed on the South Pacific's ...