For decades, textbooks and documentaries have claimed the Rapa Nui people destroyed their own island - cutting every tree to move their stone statues and dooming themselves to extinction. But that ...

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Archaeologists who analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport found that they were sculpted and transported in a ...

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

“The physics makes sense,” Doctor Carl Lipo, an archaeologist from Binghamton University, remarked after closing the mysterious case of Rapa Nui’s majestic stone statues dubbed “moai.” For decades, ...

About 3,700 kilometers off the Chilean coast, on one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, stand the moai of Rapa Nui. Moai refers to the large, monolithic stone statues of deified ...