Scientists believe the statues may have "walked" Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and ...

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 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 ...

For many years, people have wondered how the giant stone statues on Easter Island were moved. These statues, famous for their giant heads and serious faces are called Moai (pronounced mo-eye), and can ...

Cooke, George H. 1897. "Te Pito Te Henua, known as Rapa Nui: commonly called Easter Island, South Pacific Ocean. Latitude 27° 10′ S., Longitude 109° 26′ W." In Report of the United ...

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