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 ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of Easter Island as they pinpoint who built the iconic stone heads over 900 years ...

(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 ...

Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly known) is home to the enigmatic Moai, stone monoliths that have stood watch over the island landscape for hundreds of years. Their existence is a marvel ...

How Easter Island’s moai statues made it from the quarry to their final destinations has been a mystery for centuries. Archaeologists who analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport found ...