A study using 11,600 aerial drone photos to map a mountainous quarry in 3D reveals more about how the island's famed stone ...

Everyone knows about the enigmatic statues scattered across Easter Island, but the travel destination is worth visiting for ...

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

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

New excavations and high tech scans on one of the world’s most remote islands are forcing archaeologists to redraw the story ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island – Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations. Located in the South Pacific, Easter Island is home to ...

Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. When most people think of the ...

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed. The ...

Unless you count the heat, the streets of Tullahoma, Tenn., have very little in common with Easter Island, a tiny spit of land off the coast of Chile. But local artist Steve Smith is doing his part to ...

Archaeologists working on Easter Island say a recent discovery could change long-standing ideas about the island’s past. The ...

“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 ...