Scientists recently confirmed Rapa Nui legends about Moai heads "walking" to their locations, using 3D modeling to prove ...

EASTER ISLAND (WKRC) - Researchers now claim to have solved the enigma of how these statues were transported, they "walked." ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Experts believe the towering Moai of Easter Island were transported upright using an advanced rope technique, and today they ...