Moai statues near Rano Raraku volcano ... but also some finished ones. One theory suggests that the finished statues were abandoned in the quarry by the workers, after the working class attempted ...

Lipo's study found that these fallen moai have breaks consistent with falls from a vertical standing position, strengthening the theory that they walked. Patricia Hamilton/Getty Images One of the ...

"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 ...

After the flames subsided, photos from the island revealed the destruction ... the roadside — perhaps they had fallen and they couldn’t get up. The theory of the walking moai is one way scientists ...

She was the most important person of the establishment, and moved the images by supernatural ... in legendary lore that the moai walked, Pavel Pavel based his theory on the assumption that an ...

As to what the moai are meant to signify, the prevailing theory is that they represent the Rapa Nui’s ancestral chiefs—leaders who, in their cosmological view of the world, descended from gods ...

Now a pair of archaeologists have come up with a new theory: Perhaps the statues, known as moai, were "engineered to move" upright in a rocking motion, using only manpower and rope. Watch video ...

It's famous for the enormous stone statues known as moai, which were erected between the 10th and 16th centuries by the Rapa Nui people. Take a tour with the gallery above.

Subsequent rolling did not If you would like me to compress a couple of photos and send them ... Regards, I seem to remember a theory I once heard about how the moai were actually a type of ...

While this sounds absurd, there is a pleasing theory posed in a 2013 paper that the statues were indeed walked across the island and into position. It's unknown why this particular moai was placed ...

Rapanui Municipality/AFP via Getty Images A number of Easter Island’s iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a wildfire swept through the island earlier this week ...

Lipo has long challenged that narrative, arguing as far back as 2007 against the "ecocide" theory. He and Hunt published ... infrared bands from satellite images. The authors of that study ...