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.

Six replica Moai heads, originally discovered on Easter Island in the South Pacific, sit stoic in Tullahoma, Tenn. They were created by local artist Steve Smith. (WKRN Photo) ...

“My moai,” George Etzel calls his metal statue. So it is. The statue, a 14-foot replica of an angular Easter Island head, stands in a 12-acre field north of George's home. On an overcast ...

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.

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, ...

Why did people stop building statues on Easter Island? 04:09 Easter Island's statues are famous. Towering stone figures against the island's green landscape, they've inspired replica statues in ...

Meet "Big Mo," a 6-foot-tall tribute to the Easter Island statues, made out of wine corks, and the man who built him during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The giant statues of heads on Easter Island, the moai, ... using ropes, “walk” a 4.35-tonne replica moai down a path just like the ones that cover Easter Island. ...

From our middle-aisle seats, my wife, JoAnn, and I craned our necks to catch a glimpse out the airplane windows of some moai — the name for the more than 900 carved rock statues on Easter Island ...

Easter Island’s giant statues were “walked” to their locations, scientists have concluded. The startling claim comes from two archaeologists, who showed how as few as 18 people could move ...

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 ...