Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, having spent many hours planning to make the most of a week on this ...

Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found ...

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 ...

Diamond thinks they laid the moai on wooden sledges, hauled over log rails—a technique successfully tested by UCLA archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an ...

There is a Rapa-nui wedding ceremony, complete with loincloth, awaiting you on Chile’s Easter ... Moai statues and archaeological sites. Tourism, the main industry on the island, is also a ...