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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New work has now used computer models and then a test with a 4.35-ton replica Moai to show that the walking approach is ...

The origin of Easter Island's iconic head statues is one of the world's greatest archaeological puzzles. Now, scientists ...

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 ...