A Moai stone statue on Easter island of Chile in 2024. Photo: Zhu Yubo/Xinhua via Getty Images. ... 3D models of the tablets were created and botanical analyses carried out.

The question of what happened to the Rapanui, Easter Island’s native population, is one of the world's most intriguing mysteries, while the myths surrounding the famous moai statues they created ...

The misconceptions about the island’s population size come from its large and striking moai statues, Lipo said, and the assumption that it would take large groups of people to erect such statues.

How Ancient Easter Island statues “walked” Clip: Season 51 Episode 2 | 2m 17s Video has Closed Captions | CC. These giant stone heads were not dragged on sleds, as once thought.

Huge stone statues, known as moai in the indigenous Rapa Nui language, stand out on a hillside of the Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile in 2005.

Huge stone statues, known as moai in the indigenous Rapa Nui language, stand out on a hillside of the Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile in 2005.

A detailed new analysis of Easter Island’s rock gardens by a research team including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York shows that a hypothetical &ldquo ...

Among the artworks on display at the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany are pieces by sculptor Rowan Gillespie, who designed the Famine memorial in Dublin City.

If Minecraft fans are looking for a particularly spooky statue, this Herobrine build by ADHDcraft may be worth the cost of the resources. Fortunately, the statue is constructed with easy-to-mine ...

Easter Island’s iconic statues remain at risk after devastating fire. Recent blazes chewed through the heritage site, causing “irreparable” damage to hundreds of Rapa Nui’s sacred moai.