Thankfully, by the time we reached Rano Raraku, 12 miles east of town (and about a 30-minute drive), around 9:15 a.m., the ...

Or did the Rapa Nui people only realize they couldn't move such a giant statue after they'd already begun carving it? We'll ...

In February, scientists found a previously undiscovered statue in a dry lake bed inside a volcanic crater. "We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up," Terry Hunt, an ...

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 ...

The statue we moved upright here on campus was just short ... work would have produced three roads - the prepared one for the moai transport itself, and two other tracks or trails parallel to ...

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 ...

The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island ... 2011 it shipped 230 tons to the mainland. “So what do we do?” asks Zasso Paoa, the mayor. “Limit migration?

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 ...

We have chiselled away at four of those tales ... made from a basalt lava rock and is different to many of the other Moai statues. In 2018, an appeal was made to the British Museum by a delegation ...