The walking moai would have been supported and guided by ropes, with a group of Rapanui people on each side of the statue leading the steps and a small group behind steadying the movement.

Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect ...

The giant statues of heads on Easter Island, the moai, have posed an enduring problem for archaeologists -- how did their creators move them? The most popular hypothesis is that they were rolled ...

We first saw it from above while walking through Rano Raraku. ... Top 5 Moai Statue Sites appeared first on Go Backpacking. Explore the iconic moai statues on Easter Island.

In October 2012, researchers came up with the "walking" theory by creating a 5-ton replica of one of the statues (or "moai"), and actually moving it in an upright position, and have published a ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island.. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry ...

A moai on the ahu has a flat base, so the statue stands straight up. But most of the moai lying on the road have angled bases, and Carl and Terry believe that angle had a very specific purpose.

Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved monumental moai statues from volcanic rock. The quarry was more than ...

The island, also called Rapa Nui, first settled around A.D. 1200, is famous for its more than 1,000 "walking" Moai statues, most of which originally faced inland.Located in the South Pacific, Rapa ...

The largest Moai statue was indeed carved but never erected, according to experts. "There is an exceptionally 'tall' statue on Rapa Nui, known locally as El Gigante and said to be 20m long (66 feet).

The walking moai would have been supported and guided by ropes, with a group of Rapanui people on each side of the statue leading the steps and a small group behind steadying the movement.