Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...

Sergio Rapu, 63, a Rapanui archaeologist and former Easter Island governor who did graduate work with Hunt, took his American colleagues to the ancient quarry on Rano Raraku, the island’s ...

The following statistics on Easter Island's moai are the results of Van ... Total number of moai still in the Rano Raraku quarry: 397 (45%) Total number of moai lying 'in transit' outside of ...

Since Rano Raraku (the quarry), is relatively near the water ... I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the Easter Island statues, but could the stones that were made into the statues be ...

There is one unfinished in a quarry in Easter Island which is over 70 feet (20m) tall - how they ever would have erected it goodness only knows. And it does put me in mind of medieval cathedral ...

Recent research on Easter Island, published in the Plos One journal ... island's eastern side that the Indigenous people used as a quarry. The volcanic crater is made of tuff, a soft volcanic ...

There is one unfinished in a quarry in Easter Island which is over 70 feet (20m) tall - how they ever would have erected it goodness only knows. And it does put me in mind of medieval cathedral ...