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

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

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of ...

These giant figures have stood in silence for hundreds of years, guarding secrets of a remote island in the South Pacific.

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

Easter Island is named for the Sunday in 1722 when Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed his crew on the distant Pacific island. It’s been misunderstood by outsiders ever since. In recent decades, ...

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

Unlike other studies, which think they were crafted by a powerful tribe, it's thought that individual clans and families ...

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...