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Archaeologist and Easter Island expert Jo Anne Van Tilburg believes the moai were built to honor ancestors and chieftains, or for ritual use to commune with gods, she told PBS. National Geographic ...

At the Easter Island site, the NOVA team drags the concrete moai on its specially designed ... by scenes from antiquity showing giant monoliths being pulled on sleds. Now I knew that the ancients ...

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 ...

A forest fire on Chile's Easter Island in early October damaged at least 177 Moai or sacred monolithic statues, Unesco said. The report followed an exploratory mission to the island on October 17 ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just pieces ...

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 ...

Easter Island — also called Isla de Pascua and Rapa Nui — is famed worldwide for its moai, giant stone monoliths carved in the 12th and 13th centuries that (mostly) gaze inwards from its rocky ...