Based on 3D modeling and testing on a moai replica, researchers think that small groups of people may have used ropes to "walk" the large statues across the island ...

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 ...

Many of the statues not along the coast are in places that featured a resource vital to the communities that lived and worked there. It’s believed that the residents of Rapa Nui—the Indigenous name ...

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