Others stand upright with their head and shoulders above ground ... Due to the ecological and archaeological sensitivity of this moai site on Easter Island, you must visit with a guide, and ...

Paul Trachtman Local artists are reviving the island's traditions. Tattooist Andreas "Panda" Pakarati displays a wooden moai he's just ... an enigma.” Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer ...

With one rope around the head of the statue and another around ... terrain is 320 feet per day for a 20-ton statue. Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet, five tons and 13 feet ...

He shakes his head. “How did they do it ... That is, for the moai. Tourists diving on Easter Island’s reef encounter a fake moai, made for a 1994 Hollywood movie and then sunk offshore.

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 ...

"On a crisp September morning, I rushed out to Ahu Tongariki near Rano Raraku in order to see the sun rise over the 15 moai." Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam.

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just ...

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 ...