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 ...

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

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry lake ...