The moai were built mainly between 1400 and ... These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden under the soil. At the famous quarry of Rano Raraku ...

Others stand upright with their head and shoulders above ground ... Due to the ecological and archaeological sensitivity of ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved ... significance of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape.

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

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.

Easter Island is known for these iconic Moai statues, as well as mysteries surrounding the inhabitants of the island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter ...

Archaeologist and Easter Island expert Jo Anne Van Tilburg believes the moai were built to honor ancestors and chieftains, or for ritual use to commune with gods, she told PBS. National Geographic ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island. It’s a tiny, windswept place, famed for its colossal Moai – mysterious stone figures that each weigh ...

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 ...