Everyone knows the stone faces of Easter Island — but few have seen what’s carved behind them. Strange symbols, added long after the statues were raised, hint at a cultural shift few talk about and a ...

Unfinished moai attached to bedrock by “keels” along their backs demonstrate how carvers worked underneath from both sides until figures were separated from the source material. This production stage, ...

The recent discovery of the moai’s true builders comes not long after scientists from Binghamton University and the ...

Using a combination of 3D modelling and real-life experiments, scientists have confirmed that the statues may have 'walked' to their final destinations using a series of ropes and rocking the statues ...

Unlike other studies, which think they were crafted by a powerful tribe, it's thought that individual clans and families ...