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

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

Credit: Carl Lipo/Binghampton University/Cover Images For decades, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their moai statues. Now, ...

Researchers say Easter Island's 4-ton moai "walked" across the island -- thanks to physics, ropes and a little ancient choreography -- no magic necessary. Binghamton University Turns out, the heads of ...

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

Now, scientists claim to have solved one important part of the mystery. Weighing between 12 and 80 tonnes, scientists have long wondered how the island's ancient civilisation could have moved the huge ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Easter Island’s iconic Moai statues were “walked” to their platforms using rope by “remarkably few” of the island’s indigenous Rapa Nui people, solving a ...

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their iconic moai statues. Using a combination of physics, 3D modeling and ...

Quintessa and an elated Rory Hutchings after her stunning win at Ellerslie last start. Photo / Kenton Wright Sam Bergerson has a word of advice for punters wanting to back Quintessa to complete a ...

It's been 19 years since a performance group from Rapa Nui has visited the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand. For the first time in nearly two decades, the songs of Rapa Nui rang out around the walls of ...

Sept. 5 (UPI) --Rising sea levels could flood more than 50 archaeological sites on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, by 2080 -- including the iconic Ahu Tongariki, according to a new study from the ...