Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

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

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

Carl studied a variety of possibilities to decipher the mystery of how the statues were moved to where they stand today in ...

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

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

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

A sweeping 3D analysis of Rapa Nui’s main moai quarry shows that the island’s iconic statues weren’t produced by a single ruling authority, but by many small, independent groups working simultaneously ...

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

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, ...

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

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) A remote, bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, has mystified the world ever since the first ...