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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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