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 ...

Easter Island and Gobekli Tepe—be connected by more than coincidence? This video explores striking symbolic parallels between the Moai statues and Gobekli Tepe’s Pillar 43, including shared carvings, ...

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 ...

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

The move follows five years of efforts by environmental organizations and the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island, famous for its extreme isolation and mysterious stone statues known as Moai.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...