Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

“The physics makes sense,” Doctor Carl Lipo, an archaeologist from Binghamton University, remarked after closing the mysterious case of Rapa Nui’s majestic stone statues dubbed “moai.” For decades, ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

An idea suggesting massive stone statues that encircle Easter Island may have been "walked" into place has run into controversy. In October 2012, researchers came up with the "walking" theory by ...

It’s one of the most novel statues in New Zealand, but both Google and Apple have censored it. The Boy Walking in Auckland’s Mt Eden is one of the city’s most striking pieces of public art. The 5.6m ...