For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

The online model lets researchers and anyone with an internet connection explore areas that the island’s 100,000 annual ...

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

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, ...

A sweeping 3D analysis of Rapa Nui’s main moai quarry shows that the island’s iconic statues weren’t produced by a single ruling authority, but by many small, independent groups working simultaneously ...

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

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

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, ...

We’re documenting something that really has needed to be documented, but in a way that’s really comprehensive and shareable.” ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry lake ...

Carl studied a variety of possibilities to decipher the mystery of how the statues were moved to where they stand today in the island.

A new moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said. "This ...