A recent study in The Journal of Archaeological Science by Carl Lipo of Binghamton University and Terry Hunt of the ...

Experts are shedding new light on the demise of the civilization that built the famous statues on Easter Island. It has long been thought that the construction of the statues, or moai, ended around ...

The online model lets researchers and anyone with an internet connection explore areas that the island’s 100,000 annual ...

Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone giants move.

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

A dig at Rano Raraku, the quarry where Easter Island's statues were hewn out of rock, is casting new light on a remarkable discovery forgotten for decades. In 1919 pictures of the first excavations by ...

Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, in a dry lake bed on the tiny island in the middle of the Pacific.

Archaeologists have long assumed that the ancient society that erected the colossal Moai figures on Chile’s Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island, collapsed many centuries ago. Now, a new study ...

Easter Island, renowned for its enigmatic Moai statues, captivates historians and tourists alike with its rich cultural heritage and mystery. Recently, a new statue has mysteriously appeared on the ...

No one knows where Easter Island is, and that’s just the start of the island’s immutable mysticism. When I told people I was traveling to the small island this spring, people would say, “The place ...

What is known about who the first Easter Islanders were and when they arrived? Scientists have debated these questions for years. Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world, and ...