Easter Island is known for its hundreds of colossal Moai statues - but archaeologists discovered many famous 'heads' actually ...

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 online model lets researchers and anyone with an internet connection explore areas that the island’s 100,000 annual ...

Isolated in the Pacific, Easter Island is famed for its towering Moai statues—but the real story lies in the resilience of ...

A sweeping 3D analysis of Rapa Nui’s main moai quarry shows that the island’s iconic statues weren’t produced by a single ruling authority, but by many small, independent groups working simultaneously ...

A groundbreaking new study provides compelling evidence that Easter Island's enormous moai statues were built by competing clans rather than an authority ...

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the most impressive artifacts of ancient Polynesian civilization. How the statues ...

How did Easter Island’s famed moai statues get to where they are? It’s a question that has long fascinated historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and tourists alike. Now, a team of researchers at ...

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...