Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using 3D modeling and field experiments, researchers led by Binghamton University archaeologist Carl Lipo have verified that the ...

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 ...

For years, researchers have debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, managed to move their giant human-faced moai statues hundreds of years ago. On average, these statues ...

It is laying abandoned, unfinished and idle on the side of a mountain. The location is a Polynesian island thousands of kilometres from any other land. It measures almost as long as a B-double truck ...

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 ...