Researchers say they've solved one of the mysteries behind the statues on Easter Island. A study published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS One found the Rapa Nui, the ancient people who lived ...

Chile's Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built by early inhabitants some 800 years ago. The islanders likely chose the statues' locations based on ...

Easter Island, known for its majestic stone statues, has puzzled scientists for years. They wondered why the island's population essentially disappeared. This phenomenon has been attributed ...

When it comes to Easter Island’s towering stone heads, there’s now one fewer mystery to solve. Researchers have long puzzled over why the huge statues were placed where they are. However ...

Languages; English. You can get in touch with Hannah by emailing h.osborne@newsweek.com The lost civilization of Easter Island may have chosen the location of the iconic moai heads to signal where ...

Experts have worked out how the ancient people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, were able to place massive stone hats on the island’s famous statues. A team of researchers that includes experts ...

solved. (Watch a National Geographic report about Easter Island's mystery) What is the crux of the puzzle? The curious placement of the statues. Roughly half of the 1,000 moai were transported ...

Scientists studying the geographical distribution of stone heads across the island of Rapa Nui, Easter Island, have proposed a new theory for their origin. An Easter Island study published this ...

On a remote island located in the southeastern Pacific, a series of large statues line the coast. Nobody knew exactly why they were built until now. A group of archaeologists from Binghamton ...

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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The ongoing debate over what prompted the decline of Easter Island's native Polynesian inhabitants, known as Rapa Nui, is being clarified by scientists digging for answers in the soil. Writing in ...