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

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

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the most impressive artifacts of ancient Polynesian civilization. How the statues ...

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

When the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed on Easter Island in 1722, he was puzzled by how the indigenous islanders could have transported the hundreds of colossal stone statues he found studding ...

Easter Island's history may have been shaped by a century-long drought, not human destruction, altering its society in ways ...

The mystery of the Moai stone heads has eluded onlookers for centuries — and now, researchers say they finally know how they got there. The statues, which were carved and placed on the South Pacific's ...

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