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

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

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

In A Nutshell Researchers used 11,686 drone photos to create the first complete 3D map of Easter Island’s main statue quarry, ...

The island’s giant moai statues have fascinated historians since they were first discovered by European travelers in the early 18th Century.

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

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

The island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is famous for its moai. These giant, anthropomorphic monoliths have long puzzled anthropologists, driving extensive research into their ...

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were ...

Scientists believe the statues may have "walked" Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and ...

Unlike other studies, which think they were crafted by a powerful tribe, it's thought that individual clans and families ...

The huge stone heads, some of them weighing 50 tons, stare out at the empty Pacific with bland, archaic, sneering expressions. No one knows who carved these enigmatic faces—or why, or how, or when.