Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Easter Island has very few trees, so the idea of dragging the statues on wooden sledges or rollers seemed highly unlikely. So ...

Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new clues about how these monuments were made and the Polynesian society that brought ...

"Both busts are presented in a stone sculpture design, accompanied by bases that feature characteristics of stone columns. A highlight on these "Frozen" busts is the national flower of Arendelle, the ...

Now, scientists claim to have solved one important part of the mystery. Weighing between 12 and 80 tonnes, scientists have long wondered how the island's ancient civilisation could have moved the huge ...

“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, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Artist G.K. Reiser's stone statues vaguely resemble human figures or even snowmen. Their bulbous ...

CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe (AP) — A pair of white hands blinding a Black face. A smiling colonizer with a Bible, crushing the skull of a screaming native with his boot. Chained men in gold mines, and a ...