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

Giant stone ... shaking his head. Easter Island came to the world's attention in 1962 when pictures of moai appeared in National Geographic magazine. "Massive heads carved of stone stand vigil ...

A new theory about who built the giant stone statues on Easter ... suggesting they were built by different cultures. Easter Island has about 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered ...

Stone wall at Ahu Vinapu, Easter Island. There is little data to support Heyerdahl. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who is unconvinced by Heyerdahl's theory, notes that "all archaeological, linguistic ...