Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the island. Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 ...

These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies ... Moving these heavy statues was a big challenge. Scholars think they used ramps and a method called parbuckling.

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

Between A.D. 1000 and 1600, the people of Easter Island, a small island isolated in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, carved about 900 massive statues from an ancient volcano. These austere-faced ...

a stark reminder that you are still on Easter Island. The distinct features of the moai, with carvings on their backs, are accented by the red scoria top knots, or pukaos, on their heads.

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...

Travel resumed to Easter Island last week after COVID-19 restrictions ... These are carved human figures with oversized heads, often resting on huge stone pedestals called ahus.

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... To see dozens of maoi in various stages of being carved, head to the Rano Raraku volcano. Being so close to the ...