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 ...

Rapa Nui, 2,200 miles west of the mainland, is as rugged as it is remote — and an exploration offers blustery hikes, volcanic craters and villages of rock-hewn moai.

Moai statues near Rano Raraku volcano, Rapa-Nui National Park, Chile. Easter Island's famous moai, monumental human figures carved from the local quarried volcanic rocks, have long puzzled visitors ...

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 ...

Easter Island’s massive moai statues were moved across the island without wheels, cranes, or modern machinery, yet many weigh ...

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 ...

Credit: Carl Lipo/Binghampton University/Cover Images For decades, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their moai statues. Now, ...

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 ...

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 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...