Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...
Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found ...
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The Stone Faces of Rano Raraku: Uncovering the Secrets of Easter Island’s MoaiPBS outlined the theories and their potential in their 2024 NOVA episode, Easter Island Origins (which I highly recommend).
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 ...
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