Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to ...

For years, researchers have debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, managed to move their giant ...

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

The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around ...

Archaeologists who analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport found that they were sculpted and transported in a way that resembles a walking motion.

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the ...

The mystery of how the roughly 130,000 pound statues traveled from quarry to resting place may be solved.

The ancient moai statues of Easter Island may have been “walked” to their resting places, according to a new study.

For many years, people have wondered how the giant stone statues on Easter Island were moved. These statues, famous for their giant heads and serious faces are called Moai (pronounced mo-eye), and can ...

When the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed on Easter Island in 1722, he was puzzled by how the indigenous islanders could have transported the hundreds of colossal stone statues he found studding ...

Scientists recently confirmed Rapa Nui legends about Moai heads "walking" to their locations, using 3D modeling to prove ...

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen has an exquisite track record, having “discovered” both the Polynesian islands of Bora Bora and Maupiti. However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he is most ...