While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

The online model lets researchers and anyone with an internet connection explore areas that the island’s 100,000 annual ...

A first-ever 3D model of the Rano Raraku quarry lets anyone examine Easter Island’s iconic statue workshop in vivid detail.

Experts are shedding new light on the demise of the civilization that built the famous statues on Easter Island. It has long been thought that the construction of the statues, or moai, ended around ...

We’re documenting something that really has needed to be documented, but in a way that’s really comprehensive and shareable.” Lipo is one of the foremost experts on the Easter Island moai. In October, ...

A dig at Rano Raraku, the quarry where Easter Island's statues were hewn out of rock, is casting new light on a remarkable discovery forgotten for decades. In 1919 pictures of the first excavations by ...

A devastating wildfire earlier this week caused "unmeasurable" damage to a number of Easter Island’s famous stone head statues. "It's unquantifiable, unmeasurable, the damage there is, it's ...

New theories suggest the artwork of Easter Island may echo designs carved thousands of years earlier at Göbekli Tepe. Could these two sites be connected ...

Everyone knows the stone faces of Easter Island — but few have seen what’s carved behind them. Strange symbols, added long after the statues were raised, hint at a cultural shift few talk about and a ...

What caused the collapse of Easter Island, widely believed to be the world's most isolated inhabited place, hundreds of years ago? The question is a matter of hot debate. Conventional wisdom holds ...