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11:11, Fri, Dec 5, 2025 Updated: 11:14, Fri, Dec 5, 2025 Referred to as Moai by the Rapa Nui inhabitants who crafted these figures in the tropical South Pacific directly west of Chile, these colossal ...

Scientists have uncovered how ancient Easter Islanders moved massive moai statues. Instead of dragging them flat, the statues were rocked upright. Teams used ropes to guide them forward, a method ...

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The gargantuan heads of Easter Island may have finally tacked on an artist credit — or several, it turns out. The over 900 statues on Rapa Nui, the indigenous name for the Chilean territory, had long ...

Easter Island’s monumental stone statues may have been created through a decentralised artistic and spiritual tradition, with many different communities making their own carved stone giants, rather ...

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

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 brought ...

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 ...

A traditional dance group from Rapa Nui (or Easter Island) performed a ceremony at the British Museum in London in front of one of the giant, iconic statues from their island that has been part of the ...

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...

Conducting research on the main quarry of Easter Island is challenging in ordinary circumstances. The easternmost Polynesian island is a six-hour flight from the nearest airport and reaching parts of ...