Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture.

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, ...

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa ... The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. The statues, which are carved from volcanic ...

But many more made it to their platforms intact. The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui—native dancers in body paint, less so. Some 2,000 Rapanui ...

or Rapa Nui, the name given by the indigenous people to their island in the 1860s. Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who has studied the moai for many years, believes the statues may have been ...

This photograph shows moai on Rapa Nui. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of ...

Method: Tied statue on its back to a sledge (sled ... to date are daunting-to-impossible on the rolling Rapa Nui terrain." Moai: Concrete replica with the dimensions of a statistically average ...

The oldest moai dates back to 1300, and among the Rapa Nui people there was a belief that ... Their spirits were said to temporarily live inside the statues, and the statues remain sacred vessels.