This preservation has allowed the intricate carvings on their backs to ... For the fifth must-see moai statue site on Easter Island, I'd like to highlight Ahu Akivi, constructed in the 16th ...

The following statistics on Easter Island's moai are the results ... necessary to complete the Herculean task of carving and moving the moai?

I am a fifth-grade student and have been researching Easter Island for my school project. I have read your plans to experiment with the best ways to move the moai. Your daily dispatches are ...

This video explores the fascinating potential connection between Easter Island’s Moai statues and Turkey ... Both feature strikingly similar carvings, particularly with motifs resembling ...

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 ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an ...

Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam ... 12 chiefdoms had sufficient unity and ability to communicate carving standards, organize carving methods and achieve political ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen ... recovering and reinventing their ancient art and culture. Carving a small wooden moai in his yard, Andreas Pakarati, who goes by ...