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

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

Researchers confirmed that Rapa Nui’s moai statues could “walk” upright using a rocking motion, aided by rope and just a few ...

The monolithic human figures of Rapa Nui, called Moai, are among the most recognizable statues in the world. There are 900 of them carved and erected between 1250 and 1500 CE. The making and ...

Easter Island’s Moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...

For years, researchers have speculated about how the ancient people of Easter Island managed to move their massive moai ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on ...

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

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their ...

Winston-Salem and the owners of a Confederate statue downtown may be at an impasse over whether moving the statue is legal. Although the city has offered to pay the costs of relocating the statue to a ...