In a surprising turn of events, a new moai statue has been discovered on Easter Island in 2025, challenging previous archaeological assumptions and potentially reshaping our understanding of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using 3D modeling and field experiments, researchers led by Binghamton University archaeologist Carl Lipo have verified that the ...

Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery—spine-tingling but solvable—it’s hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to know how a lost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 1,289 miles from the nearest human settlement, Easter Island—or Rapa Nui, as its own people call it—is arguably the ...

Popular histories point to Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, as a cautionary tale of environmental collapse: the original inhabitants “let their population outgrow their home’s capacity to ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...