The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around ...

Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo and the University of Arizona’s Terry Hunt have been studying the monoliths and concluded that the Rapa Nui people likely used a rope and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study suggests that the island of Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, didn’t develop in the extreme manner of isolation that we thought ...

For centuries, Easter Island’s famous moai statues have stood guard over the remote volcanic island in the South Pacific, withstanding sun, wind, rain, lichen and even fire. But in the coming decades, ...

Archaeologists finally crack mystery of how Moai statues were erected on Easter Island - Roads made by villagers stabilised ...

Although rapamycin eventually became a billion-dollar drug, many of the people instrumental to its discovery—most importantly ...