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

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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

New moai discovered on Easter Island, according to Ma'u Henua vice president. A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...