New excavations and high tech scans on one of the world’s most remote islands are forcing archaeologists to redraw the story ...

Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...

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 widespread deforestation believed to have been caused by the Rapa Nui people to build the towering Easter Island statues did not result in the population’s catastrophic collapse as held by a ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Easter Island’s iconic Moai statues were “walked” to their platforms using rope by “remarkably few” of the island’s indigenous Rapa Nui people, solving a ...

A researcher has offered a new theory for the mystery of Easter Island’s stone heads, arguing in a recent study that carvers believed they helped the growth of crops. Soil tests of the Rano Raraku ...

Learn how researchers used physics, 3D Models, ropes, and a bit of elbow grease to help walk Easter Island’s Moai into Place. People around the world are fascinated by how ancient civilizations ...

The hillside of Rano Raraku volcano on Rapa Nui feels like a place that froze in time. Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this ...