Now, scientists claim to have solved one important part of the mystery. Weighing between 12 and 80 tonnes, scientists have long wondered how the island's ancient civilisation could have moved the huge ...

One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Easter Island may finally be solved - as scientists pinpoint who built the iconic stone heads over 900 years ago. In the past, researchers assumed that the 12 ...

A team of geologists investigated Easter Island’s age by dating zircon minerals, which turned out to highlight ancient unknowns. A mysterious mineral discovery on Easter Island could be up to 165 ...

The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around Easter Island. Reading time 3 minutes The moai statues of Easter Island have ...

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed. The ...

Easter Island's iconic moai statues have long puzzled the world, but new research hints at a surprising twist in their creation story, challenging old beliefs. The enigmatic giant heads that have ...

About 30 wooden objects from the remote island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, in the South Pacific Sea bear an engraved script that remains untranslated. Experts have long wondered whether ...

The statues are dotted across the island, but how did they get there? (Picture: Getty) For 900 years, the mystery of how the famous Easter Island stone figures ended up where they are has baffled ...

Geology textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those plates like a conveyor belt. But that idea, first set out some 100 years ago, ...

A recently-published study challenges the popular myth that Easter Islanders' ancient rock gardening practices caused their own downfall. The journal article, which is titled "Island-wide ...