Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile’s Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said. The ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations.

Scientists recently confirmed Rapa Nui legends about Moai heads "walking" to their locations, using 3D modeling to prove ...

Archaeologists analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport to find that they were transported in a way that ...

The hillside of Rano Raraku volcano on Rapa Nui feels like a place that froze in time. Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this ...

An exciting new discovery has been made on Easter Island. Good Morning America reports that in late February, a new moai statue was found in Rapa Nui National Park in Chile. The sacred statue was ...

“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 ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile’s Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said. The ...

Moai in Rapa Nui National Park on the slopes of Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island, Chile. There are approximately 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, but the recent discovery has excited ...

Climate Chile Rising Seas FILE - Moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Nov, 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File) (Copyright 2022 ...