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

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 ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...

Scientists believe the statues may have "walked" Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and ...

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 ...

A previously unknown moai statue, one of Easter Island's massive carved monoliths, has been found buried beneath a dried up lake bed, Good Morning America reports. Easter Island, also known as Rapa ...

A new moai has been discovered on the remote inhabited volcanic Easter Island situated in Polynesia. Earlier this week, a new moai statue was found in a dry lake bed on the island, according to ...

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen has an exquisite track record, having “discovered” both the Polynesian islands of Bora Bora and Maupiti. However, it’s his accounts of Easter Island for which he is most ...

A devastating wildfire earlier this week caused "unmeasurable" damage to a number of Easter Island’s famous stone head statues. "It's unquantifiable, unmeasurable, the damage there is, it's ...

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 ...

It is laying abandoned, unfinished and idle on the side of a mountain.The location is a Polynesian island thousands of kilometres from any other land.It measures almost as long as a B-double truck and ...

Using 3D modeling and experiments, Carl Lipo’s team showed Rapa Nui ‘walked’ moai upright across rough terrain, supporting ...