It’s Long Been Considered One of the Most Mysterious Places in the World. The Answer Was Hiding in Plain Sight.

As for the statues long assumed to have been abandoned as they were being transported to the coastline to be displayed in ...
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Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation

Scientists used drones to produce this 3D model of Rano Raraku, the volcanic crater where 95% of Rapa Nui's giant statues were carved. Lipo et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC BY Rapa Nui, also known as Easter ...

A historian corrects the record about the mysteries of Easter Island

In “Island at the Edge of the World,” Mike Pitts tells the story of the people who carved the giant heads on the remotest inhabited place on Earth.
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New study confirms the legend that the massive Moai statues of Rapa Nui “walked” to their current locations

Some local legends are based in truth.
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Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carl Lipo, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) Rapa ...