Some of Easter ... statues of Easter Island,” Carl Lipo, a co-author of the new study and an anthropologist at Binghamton University, said in a statement. “Our work combines cutting-edge 3D ...

It's easy to look at the pyramids or the giant stone statues of Easter ... of the massive statues of Easter Island," says Lipo. "Our work combines cutting-edge 3D modeling with artifact analysis ...

These stunning pictures reveal the Easter Island head statues had huge bodies buried underground. And researchers have also discovered the monolithic statues have petroglyph engravings (pictures).

Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island - some 2,000 miles west of Chile - than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. In October 2011, the Easter ...

A team of experts at UCLA developed the Easter Island Statue Project to better study ... of the heads to reveal the underlying torso and body. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, a researcher at the ...

The Moai statues of Easter Island present one of the world's greatest technical mysteries. The stone heads (actually full bodies) that dot the island in the South Pacific are massive and number in ...

A delegation from the British Museum has traveled to Easter Island to discuss calls for the return of its famous artifacts – including the towering Hoa Hakananai’a statue. Easter Island ...