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 machines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn how researchers used physics, 3D Models, ropes, and a bit of elbow grease to help walk Easter Island’s Moai into Place.

Real-world experiments and computer simulations support the controversial idea that the Moai statues on Rapa Nui were walked into place.

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