Archaeologists working on Easter Island say a recent discovery could change long-standing ideas about the island’s past. The ...

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 ...

Have you ever thought a place could be completely explored and understood, only to have a secret pop up out of nowhere? That's exactly what happened on Easter Island in 2023, where a previously ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For decades, archeologists have debated whether the writing system of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), known as ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry lake ...

Scientists have found a previously undiscovered moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island, in a dry lake bed on the tiny island in the middle of the Pacific.

A new moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said. "This ...