The famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, are best known for their ... earthen ramps to reach the top of the ancestor heads, called Moai. The largest of these colossal red hats has a ...

Others stand upright with their head and shoulders above ground ... Due to the ecological and archaeological sensitivity of ...

Travelers to Easter Island can only visit Rano Raraku ... We passed a pair of fallen moai, one facing up with its head broken ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved ... significance of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape.

a four-tonne basalt statue from the Chilean Pacific territory of Rapa Nui - named Easter Island by European explorers. The statues, known as moai, were carved by the island's indigenous Rapa Nui ...

With one rope around the head of the statue and another around ... terrain is 320 feet per day for a 20-ton statue. Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet, five tons and 13 feet ...

He shakes his head. “How did they do it ... That is, for the moai. Tourists diving on Easter Island’s reef encounter a fake moai, made for a 1994 Hollywood movie and then sunk offshore.

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world.