Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Among the palm fronds and hibiscus flowers of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, the moai—massive statues of volcanic rock usually carved in the images of ...

The giant statues on Easter Island have been a subject of theorising down the centuries ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile’s Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said. The ...

Just lost 30min zooming around the 3d model of the island looking at all the quarry sites. Don't tell my boss. Given that the carving techniques differed from site to site, the authors concluded that ...

Easter Island's statues were made by different groups of people, according to new research. The iconic monuments arose from numerous teams from different clans working independently of each other, ...

Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery—spine-tingling but solvable—it’s hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to know how a lost ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new clues about how these monuments were made and the Polynesian society that ...