There are 887 moai scattered across Easter Island ... On a remote, barren island bestowed with few resources, walking the statues would have been an efficient method. "You see the engineering ...

An idea suggesting massive stone statues that encircle Easter Island may have been "walked" into place has run into controversy. In October 2012, researchers came up with the "walking" theory by ...

An idea suggesting massive stone statues that encircle Easter Island may have been "walked" into place has run into controversy. In October 2012, researchers came up with the "walking" theory by ...

The giant statues of heads on Easter Island, the moai ... began to come off the bases of the statues under the stresses of walking. While walking was clearly possible, the damage it would cause ...

Narrator] Most visitors come all the way to Easter Island because of these stone statues, the moai ... Terry] And walking really describes what these moai did. - [Narrator] To test their theory ...

Researchers say they've solved one of the mysteries behind the statues on Easter Island. A study published ... "It wasn’t obvious when walking around – with the water emerging at the coast ...

About one mile east of Rano Raraku volcano is Ahu Tongariki, the largest ahu complex on Easter Island with 15 moai statues. We first saw it from above while walking through Rano Raraku.

The tallest standing statue on Easter Island currently is only 33 feet tall ... moai did not meet the requirements of transport by 'walking.' They would require the correct center of gravity ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers ... make them appear as if they are walking forward.

The team argued that the physics of the bases allowed the statues, or moais, to be rocked side to side so that they would tip forward, walking into place. For one, many of the statues on Rapa Nui ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter ... the island has been the subject of intrigue. Who built the Moai? How did they move such huge statues without ...