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

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

The ancient Polynesians who settled the island of Rapa Nui – formerly known as Easter Island – may have worked out an ...

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

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

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

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

Richard Smith has less than $20,000 in his IRA and little in his savings account. He does DoorDash delivery and works at a ...

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

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

For decades, the popular theory was bleak: the islanders, obsessed with their statues, supposedly deforested their island to ...

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