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 ...

Mystery of the moai solved: Researchers say they 'walked' across Rapa Nui. For decades, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their ...

The lost civilization of Easter Island may have chosen the location of the iconic moai heads to signal where fresh water was available, a study has suggested. Carl Lipo, an anthropologist who has ...

The new 3D model, made possible by Binghamton researchers, lets visitors explore the main quarry of Easter Island, home to ...

Now, scientists claim to have solved one important part of the mystery. Weighing between 12 and 80 tonnes, scientists have long wondered how the island's ancient civilisation could have moved the huge ...

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 ...

The creation and excavation of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)'s Te Tokanga moai statue was never completed.(Supplied: Carl Philipp Lipo / Binghamton University) It is lying abandoned, unfinished and idle on ...

YOU could say Rapa Nui is in the middle of nowhere, but it’s even less central than that. Moored in the empty South Pacific, this barren outcrop – also known as Easter Island – is some 2,100km ...

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 ...