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 ...

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

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

Scientists have uncovered how ancient Easter Islanders moved massive moai statues. Instead of dragging them flat, the statues ...

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, ...

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

Learn how several working groups with their own carving techniques built the iconic moai of Easter Island.

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, ...

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of ...

Easter Island’s Rapa Nui statues were carved by several independent groups, including competing families, without any central authority overseeing them, according to a new study. At such a critical ...