Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. The statues, which are carved from volcanic rock, stand at 13 feet high ...

The one-room house that José Antonio Tuki built on ... But many more made it to their platforms intact. The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui ...

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the island. Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 ...

including one that resembles an Easter Island Moai statue. “It’s kind of unique and that's not going anywhere,” Stanbrough said. “It’s not a house that's going to be for everybody ...

Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who has studied the moai for many years, believes the statues may have been created in the image of various paramount chiefs. They were not individualized ...

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

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Easter Island is known for these iconic Moai statues, as well as mysteries surrounding the inhabitants of the island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

From the iconic moai statues that dot the landscape to natural ... On our second night, while walking back to our guest house from Kanahau restaurant, we were treated to a star-filled sky.

Standing on the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui are around 900 carved statues. European explorers renamed Rapa Nui as Easter Island, and the monolithic figures - called Moai - became known around ...