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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Isla de Pascua) is an isolated island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, one of the most remote ...

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 ...

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 ...

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