This discovery surprised both the researchers as well as the locals because no other moai have been found on lakes. It adds a new dimension to the mystery of what the cultural and religious ...

Though similar monoliths have been found throughout Polynesia, Rapa Nui’s statues are unique in their size and solemn faces. Photograph by Susan Seubert One theory of how moai were transported ...

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 ...

Because of the discovery, archaeologists are determined to see if they can discover anything else on the island, whether that be more moai or tools that could have been used to make them.

Island’s famous Moai statues remain one of the greatest archaeological enigmas in the world. This video questions the mainstream narrative that Polynesian settlers carved and transported over 1,000 ...

The fire has burned more than 247 acres of the Pacific island, where hundreds of haunting monolithic statues, called moai, have stood for centuries. By Johnny Diaz Some of the ancient monolithic ...

“The interesting thing is that, for at least the last 200 or 300 years, the laguna was three meters deep, meaning no human being could have left the moai there in that time,” Huki sai ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...

“It doesn’t have a lot of things to see.” Now, people can see his replicas of the famed Moai (Moe-eye) statues, better known as Easter Island heads. Easter Island, located in the middle of ...