Archeologists have used drones and photogrammetry to create a map of the quarry that produced 95 of Easter Island's statues.

Learn how several working groups with their own carving techniques built the iconic moai of Easter Island.

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

The oldest-known representations of a pharaoh are carved on rocks near the Nile River in southern Egypt, researchers report. The carvings were first observed and recorded in the 1890s, but only ...

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were constructed and the society that made them.

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

Wire sculptor Ryan Stimers, a leading artisan at Key West’s nightly Mallory Square Sunset Celebration, bends and twists ...