Germany's hard-right AfD party launched its new youth organisation on Saturday as thousands of furious protesters descended ...

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

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

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

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

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

Binghamton University archaeologists have released a new interactive, 3D model of the Moai statue quarry on Rapa Nui (Easter ...

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, ...

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

Easter Island’s Rapa Nui statues were carved by several independent groups, including competing families, without any central ...

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 ...

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