The moai were built mainly between 1400 and ... These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies, many hidden under the soil. At the famous quarry of Rano Raraku ...

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the island. Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 ...

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

Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Archaeologist and Easter Island expert Jo Anne Van Tilburg believes the moai were built to honor ancestors and chieftains, or for ritual use to commune with gods, she told PBS. National Geographic ...

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 ...

It's home to about 1,00 monliths called moai that stare at the ocean ... why hundreds of eclipse chasers will head not to South America but to Easter Island to view the ring.