Chileans faced a poser. As possessors of Latin America’s only South Seas colony, ought they not ask for membership in the new U.N. Trusteeship Council? In Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, ...

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...

Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Oslo to Chile’s remote territory of Easter Island ...

For years, researchers have debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, managed to move their giant ...

The Seven Moai (anthropomorphic monolithic statues) at the Ahu Akivi Archaeological Site on Easter Island Photo: VCG Easter Island is known for its unique Moai monumental statues carved by the Rapa ...

Archaeologists analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport to find that they were transported in a way that ...