Easter Island study disproves popular theory about creation of its famous statues - Population collapse theory seems to be ‘colonial narrative’, scientist says ...

For centuries, scientists have tried to solve the mystery of how the colossal stone statues of Easter Island moved. Now there's a new theory—and it rocks. The multiton behemoths traveled up to ...

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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 ...

Statues on Easter Island. Annu Kostiainen/Shutterstock The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile .

About 2,000 miles off the coast of South America sits the Chile-governed Easter Island. Just 14 miles long and 7 miles wide, it was named by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who discovered it on ...

There are nearly 1,000 moai on Easter Island made from volcanic tuff, according to Dr. Terry Hunt, professor of archeology at the University of Arizona who has been studying the statues and the ...