For decades, textbooks and documentaries have claimed the Rapa Nui people destroyed their own island - cutting every tree to move their stone statues and dooming themselves to extinction. But that ...

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long ...

For years, researchers have debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, managed to move their giant ...

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

The ancient moai statues of Easter Island may have been “walked” to their resting places, according to a new study.

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

For millennia, ancient civilizations have left us clues about the importance of living in harmony with nature. Despite the warnings etched in stone tablets, whispered through sacred texts, and painted ...