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

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The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around ...

Their findings line up perfectly with Rapa Nui oral traditions, which have long claimed the statues literally walked from the ...

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For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...

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The mystery of how the roughly 130,000 pound statues traveled from quarry to resting place may be solved.

Researchers confirmed that Rapa Nui’s moai statues could “walk” upright using a rocking motion, aided by rope and just a few ...

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Real-world experiments and computer simulations support the controversial idea that the Moai statues on Rapa Nui were walked into place.