Archaeologists analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport to find that they were transported in a way that ...

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

A LONG-RUNNING mystery over the Easter Island’s iconic heads has finally be solved. Experts have forever wondered how the ancient Rapa Nui people managed to move the giant statue carvings ...

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

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

For many years, people have wondered how the giant stone statues on Easter Island were moved. These statues, famous for their ...

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

Remote and mysterious, Easter Island is home to the iconic Moai statues — but their story is one of struggle, not mystery.

Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo and the University of Arizona’s Terry Hunt have been studying the monoliths and concluded that the Rapa Nui people likely used a rope and ...

Scientists believe they now understand how the Moai statues on Easter Island were moved into place by the Rapa Nui people ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Easter Island ’s iconic Moai statues were “walked” to their platforms using rope by ...

According to the Daily Mail, using a combination of 3D modeling and experiments, scientists have confirmed that the statues actually “walked” to their destinations. By studying nearly 1,000 of the ...