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 ...

Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam ... nearly 1,000 monolithic statues. The massive effigies, on average 13 feet tall and weighing 14 tons, are thought to represent ...

These include figures on Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands and the Raivavae Islands, which share striking similarities with ...

Named Easter Island by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen ... so I think people were already starving when they were carving these statues. The early moai were thinner, but these last statues ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island ... Who built the Moai? How did they move such huge statues without the use of modern tools?

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 ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... From the 10th to the 16th century this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known ...

Documentary exploring how new evidence is challenging everything we thought we knew about Easter Island and the nearly 900 giant stone statues scattered across this remote Pacific island.