The island, home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads known as Moai, has long fascinated archaeologists and historians.

Easter Island has about 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered throughout the island. Most historians agree that the Moai statues were carved by Polynesians approximately 900 years ago.

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos ... "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal upon which ...

James Di Lorento, SI Local artists are reviving the island's traditions ... Pakarati is dwarfed by a stone head as he stops to lean against it. “It’s hard to imagine,” he says, “how ...

It takes six hours to get to this remote destination that has almost no phone service, rolling green hills and volcanoes.

He shakes his head. “How did they do it ... 15 restored moai stand watch at Ahu Tongariki, the largest of Easter Island’s ceremonial stone platforms. Rapanui artisans carved the moai ...

Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam ... roughed out the statues using stone tools called toki and employed sharp obsidian tools to make finer lines.

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos ... "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal upon which ...