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

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D mapping reveals Easter Island's iconic statues were built by competing family clans, not centralized rulers.

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The recent discovery of the moai’s true builders comes not long after scientists from Binghamton University and the ...

Toyota has unveiled a prototype robot chair, called Walk Me, at the Japan Mobility Show 2025, designed to help people with limited mobility navigate environments that traditional wheelchairs cannot.

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...

The cruciform structure discovered. Credit: Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona An international team of archaeologists, led by the University of Arizona, has discovered at the Aguada Fénix site a ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of ...