Island has been a source of fascination for historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not ...

Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with ...

Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam ... nearly 1,000 monolithic statues. The massive effigies, on average 13 feet tall and weighing 14 tons, are thought to represent ...

According to a survey by archeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, the Easter Islanders successfully transported 288 moai statues to various ahu platforms around the island. We're only proposing that you ...

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 ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen ... so I think people were already starving when they were carving these statues. The early moai were thinner, but these last statues ...

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 ...

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 ...