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Scientists just unearthed a new statue on Easter Island. Take a look inside one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.
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 ...
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Exploring Easter Island, one of the world's most remote inhabited islands
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 ...
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If They Could Only Talk
This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...
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Rapa Nui National Park
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 ...
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IU repatriates human remains to people of Easter Island
A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...
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Moai Statues on Easter Island (IMAGE)
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 ...