Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, having spent many hours planning to make the most of a week on this ...

Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...

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 ...

A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...

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 ...

Desde el siglo X al XVI, construyó santuarios y esculpió numerosos ”moai“ , gigantescos personajes de piedra que forman un paisaje cultural inigualable y fascinan hoy al mundo entero. Rapa Nui, de ...

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.

Rapa Nui has attracted tourists for years with its ancient Polynesian Moai statues and archaeological sites. Tourism, the main industry on the island, is also a source of concern for locals who ...