The mystery of the Moai statues is a big question for archaeologists and historians. They use evidence and stories passed down to understand how they were made. In the next parts, we’ll explore ...

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 ...

However, it has made been criticized by many archaeologists ... In one instance, a platform even reuses the head of a Moai statue. Dr. Dale F. Simpson Jr., an archaeologist who has studied the ...

Even specialized priests were known to move moai at the request of those who wanted them on their family land or ahu. Method: Tied statue on its back to a sledge (sled) made from a tree fork.

Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. The statues, which are carved from volcanic rock, stand at 13 feet high ...

The volcanic crater is made of tuff, a soft volcanic rock ideal for carving. From 1100 to 1500 AD, roughly one thousand moai ...

Hoa Hakananai’a is made from a basalt lava rock and is different to many of the other Moai statues. In 2018, an appeal was made to the British Museum by a delegation from the island to have the ...

In real life, walking miles with much larger moai would have been a tense business. Dozens of fallen statues line the roads leading away from the quarry. But many more made it to their platforms ...

Easter Island is known for these iconic Moai statues, as well as mysteries surrounding the inhabitants of the island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

She reported, "A total of 887 monolithic statues has been located by the ... Less than one third of all carved moai actually made it to a final ceremonial ahu site. Was this due to the inherent ...