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

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

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

EASTER ISLAND (WKRC) - Researchers now claim to have solved the enigma of how these statues were transported, they "walked." Although they appear to be just heads, many have full bodies buried by ...

Archaeologists analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport to find that they were transported in a way that ...

Easter Island is named for the Sunday in 1722 when Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed his crew on the distant Pacific island. It’s been misunderstood by outsiders ever since. In recent decades, ...

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 ...

The new research “challenges commonly accepted ideas about the development” of ancient cultures. Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via ...

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues. Using a combination of physics, 3D modeling and ...

An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success story. Yet the history told about this “miracle drug” has completely left out the people and politics ...

Although rapamycin eventually became a billion-dollar drug, many of the people instrumental to its discovery—most importantly, the people of Rapa Nui—have been largely forgotten in both a monetary and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ted Powers, University of California, Davis (THE CONVERSATION) An antibiotic ...