These giant figures have stood in silence for hundreds of years, guarding secrets of a remote island in the South Pacific. Now, scientists say they have finally solved part of the mystery. Researchers ...

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 ...

The mysterious giant heads that have mesmerized tourists visiting Easter Island could finally have their real makers revealed, and the discoveries are poised to shock the archaeological community. In ...

The gargantuan heads of Easter Island may have finally tacked on an artist credit — or several, it turns out. The over 900 statues on Rapa Nui, the indigenous name for the Chilean territory, had long ...

The mystery of the Moai stone heads has eluded onlookers for centuries — and now, researchers say they finally know how they got there. The statues, which were carved and placed on the South Pacific's ...

Easter Island has long been misunderstood by the West. A new book by Mike Pitts sets the record straight.

How Easter Island’s moai statues made it from the quarry to their final destinations has been a mystery for centuries. Archaeologists who analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport found ...

Easter Island’s Rapa Nui statues were carved by several independent groups, including competing families, without any central authority overseeing them, according to a new study. The iconic Moai ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation. The Rapa Nui moai, the monolithic stone figures of ...

Scientists have long been confounded as to how the island’s native people were able to move such massive structures without the aid of machines or a large population The researchers now believe the ...