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.

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

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

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