Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...

Researchers at the State University of New York at Binghamton believe they've cracked the case of how Easter Island's famous ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations.