New research reveals that Easter Island’s moai statues were built to “walk” upright using a rhythmic rocking motion.

Credit: Carl Lipo/Binghampton University/Cover Images For decades, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of ...

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

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...

The monolithic human figures of Rapa Nui, called Moai, are among the most recognizable statues in the world. There are 900 of ...

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

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

The mystery behind how the massive statues on Easter Island, called moai, were transported and positioned may finally be ...

New research suggests Easter Island's moai were stood up vertically and 'walked' along carefully crafted roads.

Archaeologists confirmed the Moai statues on Easter Island were moved using ropes and roads by the Rapa Nui people.

Real-world experiments and computer simulations support the controversial idea that the Moai statues on Rapa Nui were walked into place.

Their findings line up perfectly with Rapa Nui oral traditions, which have long claimed the statues literally walked from the ...