Most everyone is familiar with the enigmatic stone heads of Easter Island, the massive carved rocks that sit on stone platforms on the coast and lie scattered across the landscape. The heads ...

Easter Island came to the world's attention in 1962 when pictures of moai appeared in National Geographic magazine. "Massive heads carved of stone stand vigil on this island so remote, that the ...

Experts have worked out how the ancient people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui ... and how did they place such massive stone hats (pukao) on top of their heads?" said Carl Lipo, a professor of ...

Rapa Nui's majestic rock statues (also known as Stone Heads of Easter Island) have been a mystery since Europeans first arrived in the 1700s on the island, located in the Pacific Ocean off the ...

Scientists studying the geographical distribution of stone heads across the island of Rapa Nui, Easter Island, have proposed a new theory for their origin. An Easter Island study published this ...

As with many things on Earth, time took its toll on the statues and buried them in sediment and rocks, hiding and preserving the torsos of the Easter Island heads. However, a team of ...

The mysterious Easter Island statues — hundreds of huge, ancient carved stone heads that guard the hilly Pacific island landscape — may actually have bodies, according to an email showing ...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui–also known as Easter Island–carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has ...

Easter Island’s towering stone heads and other archaeological elements ... “exposure to high temperatures … which could create big fractures that affect the Moai’s integrity,” according ...

Several iconic Easter Island head statues suffered “irreparable ... The fires cracked the stone on several of the statues, which will allow rain and weathering to make their way into them ...

Surprising new evidence is rewriting the story of the giant stone heads of Easter Island. How were Easter Island’s giant stone heads made? New research challenges the idea that their ...