Experts are shedding new light on the demise of the civilization that built the famous statues on Easter Island. It has long been thought that the construction of the statues, or moai, ended around ...

A recent study in The Journal of Archaeological Science by Carl Lipo of Binghamton University and Terry Hunt of the ...

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled upon a yet-undeciphered script known as Rongorongo—a three-dimensional ...

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

A dig at Rano Raraku, the quarry where Easter Island's statues were hewn out of rock, is casting new light on a remarkable discovery forgotten for decades. In 1919 pictures of the first excavations by ...

A devastating wildfire earlier this week caused "unmeasurable" damage to a number of Easter Island’s famous stone head statues. "It's unquantifiable, unmeasurable, the damage there is, it's ...

No one knows where Easter Island is, and that’s just the start of the island’s immutable mysticism. When I told people I was traveling to the small island this spring, people would say, “The place ...

The sacred statues of Easter Island have been around for at least 600 years. For centuries, the 1,000 or so stone anthropomorphic monoliths, called “moai,” on the craggy island off the coast of Chile ...

What caused the collapse of Easter Island, widely believed to be the world's most isolated inhabited place, hundreds of years ago? The question is a matter of hot debate. Conventional wisdom holds ...

The real history behind Easter Island’s mysterious statues. Video shows California mountain homes buried after massive ...

What is known about who the first Easter Islanders were and when they arrived? Scientists have debated these questions for years. Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world, and ...