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

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

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

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

Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations.

Researchers at the State University of New York at Binghamton believe they've cracked the case of how Easter Island's famous ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on platforms called ahu. Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island for ...

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

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate ...

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...

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 ...