For decades, the global image of Rapa Nui — Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as ...

Now, scientists claim to have solved one important part of the mystery. Weighing between 12 and 80 tonnes, scientists have long wondered how the island's ancient civilisation could have moved the huge ...

Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new clues about how these monuments were made and the Polynesian society that brought ...

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

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 ...