Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to "walk" the large statues across the island ...

Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast, only 14 miles long. Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are ...

Many of the statues not along the coast are in places that featured a resource vital to the communities that lived and worked there. It’s believed that the residents of Rapa Nui—the Indigenous name ...

A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a new moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the island, according to ...