The ahu is over 200 feet long, and the moai were positioned facing inland to watch over the community. It was built between the 13th and 15th centuries and served as a ceremonial site.

The Ahu Ko Te Riku moai is one of only a handful on the island to have been fully restored with a pukao placed on its head and eyes added. The cylindrical pukao, which is referred to as a top knot ...

If it takes 180 people to move a 10-ton moai, it would take an estimated 1500 people to move the largest moai successfully erected on an ahu, Paro, which weighs 82 tons.

Ahu Akivi, for example, is an ahu site with seven standing moai. Moai Stats The following statistics on Easter Island's moai are the results of Van Tilburg's survey in 1989.

There are 887 moai scattered across Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the islanders call it, and these 15 were standing on the Ahu Tongariki plinth, the largest ceremonial structure on the remote ...

Most of the statues stand with their backs to the sea on stone platforms called ahu, which hold up to 15 statues.Some moai are adorned with cylindrical red stones called pukao on their heads ...

There are 887 moai scattered across Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the islanders call it, and these 15 were standing on the Ahu Tongariki plinth, the largest ceremonial structure on the remote ...

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The giant moai statues at Ahu Tongariki in Rapa Nui. (Image credit: Atlantide Phototravel via Getty Images) A deforested environment. When people first came to Rapa Nui, around 1,000 years ago ...

Damaged moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, Chile, on Nov, 27, 2022. Each of the moai statues represent an ancestor of the Rapanui people. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) ...

View of Restored Moai (Lava Stone Effigy Figures) on Ahu (Platforms) CC0 Usage Conditions Apply Click for more information. Click to view download files. Click to ... Polynesia -- Easter Island -- Ahu ...

Afterward, the Rapa Nui would transport the statues across the island to the coast and place them on a platform (ahu), turning the Moai away from the water to face inland to protect their communities.