Decades after the discovery of the Oldowan toolkit, we’re still waiting for the species responsible to put their hand up.

Evidence is now stronger than ever that the mysterious population collapse of Rapa Nui never actually happened. Recent ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get back tell me, hand on heart, you didn’t feel something. Modern archaeology, for ...

New research reveals that Easter Island’s moai statues were built to “walk” upright using a rhythmic rocking motion.

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...

Researchers confirmed that Rapa Nui’s moai statues could “walk” upright using a rocking motion, aided by rope and just a few people. Experiments with replicas and 3D models revealed design features ...

For decades, the popular theory was bleak: the islanders, obsessed with their statues, supposedly deforested their island to ...

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their ...