Archaeologists working on Easter Island say a recent discovery could change long-standing ideas about the island’s past. The ...
Everyone knows about the enigmatic statues scattered across Easter Island, but the travel destination is worth visiting for ...
New excavations and high tech scans on one of the world’s most remote islands are forcing archaeologists to redraw the story ...
Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...
Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via Ancient Origins) has rewritten previously held beliefs about the remote society of Rapa Nui, also ...
There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed. The ...
A recent study in The Journal of Archaeological Science by Carl Lipo of Binghamton University and Terry Hunt of the University of Arizona revived the “walking statues” hypothesis.