Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

For many years, people have wondered how the giant stone statues on Easter Island were moved. These statues, famous for their giant heads and serious faces are called Moai (pronounced mo-eye), and can ...

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

Thousands of miles apart, both sites feature megaliths, symbolism, and unexplained knowledge. Some researchers believe these parallels point to a deeper prehistoric connection.

Archaeologists have confirmed that Easter Island ’s iconic Moai statues were “walked” to their platforms using rope by “remarkably few” of the island’s indigenous Rapa Nui people, solving a ...

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