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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

For many years, people have wondered how the giant stone statues on Easter Island were moved. These statues, famous for their ...

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

Richard Smith has less than $20,000 in his IRA and little in his savings account. He does DoorDash delivery and works at a campsite to pay the bills. The actress was taken to the hospital via ...

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 ...