Approximately one thousand statues were produced between ... a registered guide can walk among the stone faces of Rano Raraku ...

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 ...

and restoring the moai’s eyes on Ahu Ko Te Riku. The remains of Mulloy and later his wife Emily were buried within view of ...

In their isolation, why did the early Easter Islanders undertake this colossal statue-building effort ... an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal upon which the moai stand.

A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...

What would have been the best way to move Easter Island's stone giants ... which weighs 82 tons. Moai: Theorized for Paro, the largest statue erected on an ahu (Ahu Te Pito Kura), standing ...

The moai were carved with stone tools, mostly in a single quarry ... ingenuity—one example being their ability to walk giant statues upright across miles of uneven terrain.

It’s a tiny, windswept place, famed for its colossal Moai – mysterious stone figures that each weigh ... How did they move such huge statues without the use of modern tools?

While the Rapa Nui are best known for their Moai, monolithic stone statues of deified human ancestors, a lesser known marvel of theirs is Rongorongo, a unique writing system that new research ...