Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

Rano Raraku, a steep-sided crater on the southeastern coast of Rapa Nui (as locals call the island), was the heart of moai ...

Scientists have uncovered how ancient Easter Islanders moved massive moai statues. Instead of dragging them flat, the statues ...

Easter Island's statues were made by different groups of people, according to new research. The iconic monuments arose from ...

A new 3D model shows Rapa Nui’s moai were carved by many small teams, overturning the myth of a single centralized system.

D mapping reveals Easter Island's iconic statues were built by competing family clans, not centralized rulers.

Carl studied a variety of possibilities to decipher the mystery of how the statues were moved to where they stand today in the island.

Lane Kiffin’s disastrous exit from Ole Miss spells a much deeper problem for college football Five years and five months ago, ...

Some islands feel like they belong to our world; others seem to have slipped in from another dimension. Far from the usual ...

Easter Island’s monumental stone figures have long seemed like a closed case, their story pinned to a familiar narrative of ...

We’re documenting something that really has needed to be documented, but in a way that’s really comprehensive and shareable.” ...

These giant figures have stood in silence for hundreds of years, guarding secrets of a remote island in the South Pacific.