The new 3D model, made possible by Binghamton researchers, lets visitors explore the main quarry of Easter Island, home to ...

Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as if the moai were incomplete sculptures ...

New excavations and high tech scans on one of the world’s most remote islands are forcing archaeologists to redraw the story of how complex societies rise, adapt and endure. On Rapa Nui, better known ...

The eight-foot-tall Moai sculpture at the British Museum is called Hoa Hakananai’a, which translates to “the stolen or hidden friend.” This name is fitting, since the four-ton statue was stolen from ...

Now the islanders are hoping desperately to get it back. The statue, known as a "moai" and named the Hoa Hakananai'a, is one of hundreds originally found on the island. Carved by Polynesian colonizers ...

We all know the story, or think we do. Let me tell it the old way, then the new way. See which worries you most. First version: Easter Island is a small 63-square-mile patch of land — more than a ...

Very impressive but it seems obvious that the Easter Islanders didn't figure this complex regimen out in one shot. Rather there had to be earlier attempts with less impressive results. Is there any ...