New Statue Has Surfaced on Easter Island. The Problem? Nobody Can Explain Why It’s There ...

Just when experts thought they knew every moai on Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, a dried-up lakebed kept them on their toes. These statues—largely made of a stone formed from volcanic ash ...

Easter Island’s Rapa Nui statues were carved by several independent groups, including competing families, without any central authority overseeing them, according to a new study. The iconic Moai ...

Easter Island's statues were made by different groups of people, according to new research. The iconic monuments arose from numerous teams from different clans working independently of each other, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest unfinished statue on Easter Island is known as Te Tokanga. It would have weighed around 270 tons if completed. - Carl ...

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. When most people think of the ...

Scientists thought they found them all.

(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 ...