The island’s giant moai statues have fascinated historians since they were first discovered by European travelers in the early 18th Century.

A groundbreaking new study provides compelling evidence that Easter Island's enormous moai statues were built by competing ...

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

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

The Duke of Wellington statue traditionally has a traffic cone atop its head - but a street artist has given the landmark a ...