Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on platforms called ahu. Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island for ...

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

The ancient moai statues of Easter Island may have been “walked” to their resting places, according to a new study.

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

How did Easter Island’s famed moai statues get to where they are? It’s a question that has long fascinated historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and tourists alike. Now, a team of researchers at ...

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

Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations.

EASTER ISLAND (WKRC) - Researchers now claim to have solved the enigma of how these statues were transported, they "walked." Although they appear to be just heads, many have full bodies buried by ...

Researchers at the State University of New York at Binghamton believe they've cracked the case of how Easter Island's famous ...

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

Although rapamycin eventually became a billion-dollar drug, many of the people instrumental to its discovery—most importantly, the people of Rapa Nui—have been largely forgotten in both a monetary and ...