According to a survey by archeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, the Easter Islanders successfully transported 288 moai statues to various ahu platforms around the island. We're only proposing that you ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...

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 ...

Take a deep dive to uncover the secret to health and happiness with the age old Japanese tradition of Moai. Understanding the history Derived from the Japanese word which translates to ‘meeting ...

European explorers renamed Rapa Nui as Easter Island, and the monolithic figures - called Moai - became known around the world, with two presented to Queen Victoria as gifts in the 19th Century.

As hundreds of motorists take to the desert, their tracks damage the massive geoglyphs made by Indigenous groups in northern Chile Julia Binswanger The stone monolith is one of the famous moai ...