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

State-of-the-art computer modeling shows the iconic monuments arose from numerous teams from different clans working ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

Easter Island’s Rapa Nui statues were carved by several independent groups, including competing families, without any central ...

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were constructed and the society that made them.

Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm ...