Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as if the moai were incomplete sculptures ...

In the 1970s, author Erich von Däniken was a household name, not only in his native Switzerland, but also in the U.S. and ...

This retelling of Captain Cook’s death and the merging of two cultures is a trove of miraculously preserved wonders – but beware of the shark-toothed club!

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

Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Isla de Pascua) is an isolated island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, one of the most remote ...

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Becky Smith was one of those little girls who, in spring and summer, would regularly collect clippings of weeds, twigs and little wildflowers she found around her family’s home. “I’d bring them inside ...

A study using 11,600 aerial drone photos to map a mountainous quarry in 3D reveals more about how the island's famed stone ...

"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 ...

You could say Rapa Nui is in the middle of nowhere, but it’s even less central than that. Moored in the empty South Pacific, this barren outcrop of land, also known as Easter Island, is some 1,300 ...

Easter Island’s famous stone heads have puzzled researchers for decades, but not for the reasons most people think. The real mystery wasn’t how ancient Polynesians carved and moved these massive ...

(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 ...