Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. A new study looks at how the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research team including Binghamton University archaeologist Carl Lipo has confirmed via 3-D modeling and field experiments that ...

New 3D scans of Easter Island’s main quarry are turning a familiar mystery into a far more intricate story of labor, logistics, and landscape engineering. Instead of a single chaotic pit, the digital ...

Conducting research on the main quarry of Easter Island is challenging in ordinary circumstances. The easternmost Polynesian island is a six-hour flight from the nearest airport and reaching parts of ...

The towering Easter Island moai have always stirred wonder and curiosity. But how these massive sculptures got from quarry to platform has long been a mystery. The smaller ones weigh 12-14 tons, while ...

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 ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago. The volcanic rock used for the moai came from a quarry site called Rano Raraku. Archaeologists have ...

The defining experience of Rapa Nui National Park is encountering the moai, the elongated stone figures carved to represent important ancestors of the island’s Polynesian society.the carved moai ...