Archaeologists had cataloged what they believed was every moai statue on Easter Island, a tally approaching 1,000 figures ...
Rapa Nui, 2,200 miles west of the mainland, is as rugged as it is remote — and an exploration offers blustery hikes, volcanic craters and villages of rock-hewn moai.
A hidden statue has been revealed in the dried bed of a lake on Rapa Nui, surprising researchers who thought the island’s statues were fully documented. More than 1,000 moai have been located and ...
Explorers have long known there was more to the 887 statues on Easter Island—some 2,000 miles west of Chile—than just the statue heads made famous in photographs. When most people think 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 ...
The Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island were first encountered by European explorers in the 18th century. Disease and ...
“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...
Just when experts thought they knew every moai on Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, a dried-up lakebed kept them on their toes. These statues—largely made of a stone formed from volcanic ash ...