Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research team has confirmed via 3D modeling and field experiments that the ancient people of Rapa Nui "walked" the iconic moai ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest unfinished statue on Easter Island is known as Te Tokanga. It would have weighed around 270 tons if completed. - Carl ...

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 ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arkansas survey, 1994. Image on file. (On proper left upper rear:) H. Mabry/1959 (On proper right lower rear:) (copyright symbol)/H.M. signed The information provided about ...

(CNN) — 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 ...