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 ...

Thousands of massive stone monuments, known as Moai, preside over Easter Island. The way they were carved, using only stone tools, seems unfathomable. SmartNews: Apps for Apes The Art of Sausage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Moai statues of Easter Island form an integral part of the space. Aesthetically, it can easily distract diners with thoughts about right spots for photographs. The open-air space with tropical ...