One theory of how moai were transported is similar to how megaliths were moved at Stonehenge: workers loaded the enormous statues onto wooden sleds, which rolled across the land on tree trunks.

Each moai preserves precious information about its tribe. ... One theory is that they were moved as if they were standing, dragged with small turns as one would do with a refrigerator.

"We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up." Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for the 1,000 stone heads called moai that dot its hills and coastline. They were ...

Yet this log theory ignored the oral history of the Rapanui people who recalled the “walking statues.” A 2013 study in the Journal of Archeological Science tested the idea that the moai were ...

While we don’t know how Easter Island’s moai were made, we all but certainly know who made them.Comparing languages, mythology, and art, the scholarly community believes the Rapa Nui people ...

A new moai statue has been found buried in a dry lake bed on Rapa Nui, ... there is a pleasing theory posed in a 2013 paper that the statues were indeed walked across the island and into position.

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, ... His theory is based on a study suggesting banana plants were present on Easter Island at least 3,000 years ago.

To move each moai, two groups may have rocked it side to side while a rear group kept it upright. Illustration by Fernando G. Baptista, National Geographic New Theory Says Giant Statues Rocked ...

One theory posits that the famous moai statues of Easter Island are linked to the downfall of the Rapanui. Source: SBS The question of what happened to the Rapanui, Easter Island’s native ...

The coastal winds whipped across my face as I craned my neck to see the 15 moai before me. Standing up to two storeys tall and with their backs to the choppy Pacific Ocean, the statues' empty eye ...

Easter Island’s famous Moai statues remain one of the greatest archaeological enigmas in the world. This video questions the mainstream narrative that Polynesian settlers carved and transported ...