Just when experts thought they knew every moai on Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, a dried-up lakebed kept them on their toes. These statues—largely made of a stone formed from volcanic ash ...

Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new clues about how these monuments were made and the Polynesian society that brought ...

Easter Island's statues were made by different groups of people, according to new research. The iconic monuments arose from numerous teams from different clans working independently of each other, ...

Scientists believe they may have discovered the mystery behind the giant sacred statues on Easter Island. The statues, called moai, are believed to have been carved between 500 and 800 years ago. They ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on platforms called ahu. Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island for ...

More than 1,289 miles from the nearest human settlement, Easter Island—or Rapa Nui, as its own people call it—is arguably the world’s most remote inhabited place. To the mystique of its isolation amid ...

Scientists thought they found them all.