The latest photographs from the Easter Island Statue Project reveal what lies beneath the surface of one of the most remote islands in the world -- the carved bodies of the 887 famous guardians.

Some ancient sites defy explanation,built with such precision, scale, or purpose that even modern science struggles to ...

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population collapse, researchers propose in a new study that looks at archaeological rock gardens. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

New archaeological research has disproved one of the world’s most famous historical narratives - the environmental cautionary tale that claimed that the ancient civilisation of Easter Island in ...

EASTER ISLAND ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT DIGS UP ISLAND'S SECRETS. Carved from obsidian, or volcanic glass, thousands of the triangular objects, known as mata'a, litter the surface of the island.

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans), is located in the southeast Pacific and is famous for its approximately 1,000 carvings of moai, human-faced statues. The ...

He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, ... Located 2,300 miles off the coast of Chile and dotted with huge stone heads, remote Easter Island has long been a place of mystery.

Easter Island is known for two things: giant stone heads and the cautionary tale of an isolated civilization that destroyed itself through reckless misuse of resources. But new analysis of ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS discovered the famous Easter Island heads have hidden bodies below the ground, potentially offering further knowledge of the ancient civilisation that built them.

One of Easter Island’s world-famous moai statues has been destroyed in an accident. A Chilean island resident was arrested on March 1 after his truck – a private vehicle, not a commercial one ...

How modern archaeological research has rescued the reputation of the world’s most remote ancient civilisation. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.