A new 3D model shows Rapa Nui’s moai were carved by many small teams, overturning the myth of a single centralized system.

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

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

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were constructed and the society that made them.

TULLAHOMA, Tenn. (WKRN) – You wouldn’t expect to find a piece of the South Pacific in landlocked Tennessee, but one Tennessee city has just that. Tullahoma, located at the edge of the Highland Rim, is ...

A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a new moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the island, according to ...

Many of the statues not along the coast are in places that featured a resource vital to the communities that lived and worked there. It’s believed that the residents of Rapa Nui—the Indigenous name ...