So how can an island that is known to have giant stone faces still surprise the archaeologists? Rapa Nui aka Easter Island has always appeared to the outside world as a riddle that is solved: this is ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

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 ...