As for the statues long assumed to have been abandoned as they were being transported to the coastline to be displayed in rows on plinths, as in the reconstructed site at Ahu Tongariki, Pitts believes ...

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

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

Who moved the giant stone heads of Easter Island?. Carved over 500 years ago without machines, the Moai statues of Rapa Nui ...

Isolated in the Pacific, Easter Island is famed for its towering Moai statues—but the real story lies in the resilience of the Rapa Nui people. This episode traces 800 years of innovation, conflict, ...

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island - also known by the indigenous Polynesian name of Rapa Nui - is one of the world's most remote ...

To visit it and marvel at the quarries where hundreds of the iconic moai statues were created is a luxury few get to experience. But now people can explore Rano Raraku, one of the major quarries on ...

(CNN) — 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 ...