For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...
Easter Island’s moai statues weren’t dragged - they walked. Physics and experiments uncover how ancient islanders made stone ...
For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their ...
Their findings line up perfectly with Rapa Nui oral traditions, which have long claimed the statues literally walked from the ...
The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around ...
Researchers confirmed that Rapa Nui’s moai statues could “walk” upright using a rocking motion, aided by rope and just a few ...
A research team has confirmed via 3D modeling and field experiments that the ancient people of Rapa Nui "walked" the iconic ...
For decades, the popular theory was bleak: the islanders, obsessed with their statues, supposedly deforested their island to ...