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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...