Easter Island has long been considered one of archaeology's most studied puzzles. With more than 1,000 massive stone figures already mapped across its landscape, researchers believed they had a fairly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region's cultural and archeological past.

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago. The volcanic rock used for the moai came from a quarry site called Rano Raraku. Archaeologists have ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. More than 1,289 miles from the nearest human settlement, Easter Island—or Rapa Nui, as its own people ...

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 ...

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 ...