Scientists solve centuries-old mystery of how Easter Island's massive Moai statues got there

Scientists recently confirmed Rapa Nui legends about Moai heads "walking" to their locations, using 3D modeling to prove ...
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Did Easter Island’s Mysterious Moai Statues Waddle to Their Final Locations? Here’s What That May Have Looked Like

How did Easter Island’s famed moai statues get to where they are? It’s a question that has long fascinated historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and tourists alike. Now, a team of researchers at ...

The Statues of Easter Island ‘Walked’ Into Place, Scientists Say

Archaeologists analyzed the physics of the statues and their transport to find that they were transported in a way that ...
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Easter Island's Moai Once 'Walked'

Researchers at the State University of New York at Binghamton believe they've cracked the case of how Easter Island's famous ...
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Scientists Solved How Easter Island's Massive Statues Walked Themselves Into Place

For years, researchers have debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, managed to move their giant ...

Easter Island’s Moai Statues May Have Walked to Where They Now Stand

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the ...
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How Easter Island’s moai statues walked themselves into history

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of archaeology’s longest-standing mysteries. How did an island society, remote ...
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A New Statue Suddenly Appeared on Easter Island. That Doesn't Make Sense.

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed. The ...
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Fire damages some of the famous moai statues on Easter Island

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A fire that ripped through part of Chile’s Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic carved stone figures known as moai, authorities said. The ...
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A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil: What companies owe the Indigenous people they studied

An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success story. Yet the history told about this "miracle drug" has completely left out the people and politics ...
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A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied

An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success story. Yet the history told about this “miracle drug” has completely left out the people and politics ...
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A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ted Powers, University of California, Davis (THE CONVERSATION) An antibiotic ...