A New Statue Suddenly Appeared on Easter Island. That Doesn’t Make Sense.

Scientists thought they found them all.

Scientists Tested the Soil Under the Easter Island Statues—and May Have Finally Solved Their Meaning

Scientists believe they’ve uncovered the meaning of some of the Moai stone monoliths found on Rapa Nui, better known as ...
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The Statues of Easter Island ‘Walked’ Into Place, Scientists Say

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Among the palm fronds and hibiscus flowers of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, the moai—massive statues of volcanic rock usually carved in the images of ...
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Archaeologists believed every statue on this island had been found, until one emerged from a lakebed

A hidden statue has been revealed in the dried bed of a lake on Rapa Nui, surprising researchers who thought the island’s ...
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How Easter Island’s moai statues walked themselves into history

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...
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Easter Island's famous moai statues face growing threat from rising seas

“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 ...