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

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

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

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

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

A recent study in the Journal of Archaeological Science by archaeologists Carl Lipo of Binghamton University and Terry Hunt ...

In the study, scientists were interested in exploring how ancient people moved these gigantic stone structures without any ...

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

Researchers were confused about how the ancient people of Rapa Nui moved the iconic Moai statues, and physics might have confirmed this.

Waves driven by rising seas could reach Ahu Tongariki -- the largest restored group of moai statues on Easter Island -- in less than 60 years, according to a new study. Photo by victoriaspics/Pixabay ...

For decades, the popular theory was bleak: the islanders, obsessed with their statues, supposedly deforested their island to move the moai using wooden rollers and sledges. This narrative, popularized ...

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