Now, people can see his replicas of the famed Moai (Moe-eye) statues, better known as Easter Island heads.Easter Island, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is home to about 50 descendants ...

Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.

Moai: 13-foot, 10-ton concrete replica Method: At first, Love's crew attempted to advance the standing concrete moai forward by pulling it, side to side, ...

His replica Moai began as a home garden decoration and have grown in popularity and size ever since. “I started to do small ones for gardens,” he said.

The iconic Moai works continue to fascinate researchers. Price Database. 29 June 2025. ... until real-life experiments with replicas showed that this would have required some 1,500 people to pull ...

"We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up." Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for the 1,000 stone heads called moai that dot its hills and coastline. They were ...

The coastal winds whipped across my face as I craned my neck to see the 15 moai before me. Standing up to two storeys tall and with their backs to the choppy Pacific Ocean, the statues' empty eye ...

Easter Island’s iconic statues remain at risk after devastating fire. Recent blazes chewed through the heritage site, causing “irreparable” damage to hundreds of Rapa Nui’s sacred moai.

To move each moai, two groups may have rocked it side to side while a rear group kept it upright. Illustration by Fernando G. Baptista, National Geographic New Theory Says Giant Statues Rocked ...