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

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

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

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

D mapping reveals Easter Island's iconic statues were built by competing family clans, not centralized rulers.

Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new clues ...

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, ...

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

Some islands feel like they belong to our world; others seem to have slipped in from another dimension. Far from the usual ...

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

Courtesy of Netflix Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley, Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Joe Keery ...

Despite advances, AI models continue to be geared towards the needs of English-speaking people in high-income countries.