In his “Island at the Edge of the World,” the British archaeologist Mike Pitts delves into the misconceptions and legends ...

As for the statues long assumed to have been abandoned as they were being transported to the coastline to be displayed in ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

Easter Island — a Chilean territory at the eastern edge of Polynesia, known as Rapa Nui to residents — is known for its iconic volcanic rock statues, or moʻai. In 2023, a previously unknown statue was ...

For decades, the global image of Rapa Nui — Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as if the moai were incomplete sculptures missing their bodies. But this ...

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed. The ...

Scientists just found something new on Easter Island, and it messes with a bunch of theories people treated like facts for ...

“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 ...