The recent discovery of the moai’s true builders comes not long after scientists from Binghamton University and the ...

A groundbreaking new study provides compelling evidence that Easter Island's enormous moai statues were built by competing ...

Easter Island's iconic moai statues have long puzzled the world, but new research hints at a surprising twist in their ...

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

One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Easter Island may finally be solved - as scientists pinpoint who built the iconic stone heads over 900 years ago. In the past, researchers assumed that the 12 ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought. Geography textbooks describe the Earth's ...

Archeologists have used drones and photogrammetry to create a map of the quarry that produced 95 of Easter Island's statues.

A team of geologists investigated Easter Island’s age by dating zircon minerals, which turned out to highlight ancient unknowns. A mysterious mineral discovery on Easter Island could be up to 165 ...

The latest study challenges previous assumptions that the population building and arranging the giant statues was under ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) A remote, bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, has mystified the world ever since the first ...

The monumental statues of Easter Island, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island's barren landscape, have been a great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans. How ...