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Everyone knows the stone faces of Easter Island — but few have seen what’s carved behind them. Strange symbols, added long after the statues were raised, hint at a cultural shift few talk about and a ...

Isolated in the Pacific, Easter Island is famed for its towering Moai statues—but the real story lies in the resilience of ...

The online model lets researchers and anyone with an internet connection explore areas that the island’s 100,000 annual ...

When you look at the world’s oldest tourist sites, their survival often feels improbable. Many of these places were built ...

A first-ever 3D model of the Rano Raraku quarry lets anyone examine Easter Island’s iconic statue workshop in vivid detail.

A new study shows that Polynesian rats, not humans, were responsible for the deforestation at Rapa Nui, contrary to popular myths.

A high-resolution 3D model of Rano Raraku shows that the moai were created in many distinct carving zones. Instead of a top-down system, the statues appear to have been produced by separate family ...

The statues are dotted across the island, but how did they get there? (Picture: Getty) For 900 years, the mystery of how the famous Easter Island stone figures ended up where they are has baffled ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...