TULLAHOMA, Tenn. (WKRN) – You wouldn’t expect to find a piece of the South Pacific in landlocked Tennessee, but one Tennessee city has just that. Tullahoma, located at the edge of the Highland Rim, is ...

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 ...

TULLAHOMA, Tenn. (WKRN) – You wouldn’t expect to find a piece of the South Pacific in landlocked Tennessee, but one Tennessee city has just that. Tullahoma, located at the edge of the Highland Rim, is ...

The ancient Polynesians who settled the island of Rapa Nui – formerly known as Easter Island – may have worked out an ingenious way to make their iconic moai statues 'walk'. It's not just local legend ...

On an inconspicuous street in Arleta, retiree David Gee’s yard is renowned, not for a stunning garden or a towering tree, but because Murray lives there. Murray is a 2.5-ton replica of the monolithic ...

Unless you count the heat, the streets of Tullahoma, Tenn., have very little in common with Easter Island, a tiny spit of land off the coast of Chile. But local artist Steve Smith is doing his part to ...

For years, researchers have speculated about how the ancient people of Easter Island managed to move their massive moai statues, some weighing several tons. A new study, published in the Journal of ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Easter Island’s iconic Moai statues were “walked” to their platforms using rope by “remarkably few” of the island’s indigenous Rapa Nui people, solving a ...

For decades, the global image of Rapa Nui — Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as ...

YOU could say Rapa Nui is in the middle of nowhere, but it’s even less central than that. Moored in the empty South Pacific, this barren outcrop – also known as Easter Island – is some 2,100km ...

Scientists have long been confounded as to how the island’s native people were able to move such massive structures without the aid of machines or a large population The researchers now believe the ...

On an inconspicuous street in Arleta, retiree David Gee’s yard is renowned, not for a stunning garden or a towering tree, but because Murray lives there. Murray is a 2.5-ton replica of the monolithic ...