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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Carl Lipo/Binghampton University/Cover Images For decades, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their moai statues. Now, ...

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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 ...

Researchers confirmed that Rapa Nui’s moai statues could “walk” upright using a rocking motion, aided by rope and just a few people. Experiments with replicas and 3D models revealed design features ...

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant ...