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 ...

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

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

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were ...

In A Nutshell Researchers used 11,686 drone photos to create the first complete 3D map of Easter Island’s main statue quarry, ...

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 ...

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

New research shows how people, palms, and millions of rats shaped Easter Island long before Europeans arrived.

Despite standing on one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth, the iconic moai of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) can now be experienced from the comfort of your home.

Unless you count the heat, the streets of Tullahoma, Tenn., have very little in common with Easter Island, a tiny spit of land off the coast of Chile. But local artist Steve Smith is doing his part to ...

(Reuters) - A delegation from Easter Island will arrive in London next week to seek the return from the British Museum of one of the native Polynesians' emblematic statues. The seven-foot (2.13 m) ...