Who moved the giant stone heads of Easter Island?. Carved over 500 years ago without machines, the Moai statues of Rapa Nui ...

This image captures the iconic Moai statues of Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, one of the most remote inhabited ...

The new 3D model, made possible by Binghamton researchers, lets visitors explore the main quarry of Easter Island, home to ...

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island - also known by the indigenous Polynesian name of Rapa Nui - is one of the world's most remote ...

To visit it and marvel at the quarries where hundreds of the iconic moai statues were created is a luxury few get to experience. But now people can explore Rano Raraku, one of the major quarries on ...

(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 ...

The moai vary from about ten tons to 80 tons. One that would have been 270 tons was abandoned while partially carved. One of the theories about moai abandoned along roads is that they tend to be ...

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 ...