Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...

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 ...

ROCK IT, standing up, side-to-side. Or, maybe try to ROLL IT, lying down, on round palm poles, or perhaps DRAG IT on its back. ... Moai: 13-foot, 10-ton original moai from Easter Island ...

The moai and ceremonial sites are along the coast, with a concentration on Easter Island's southeast coast. Here, the moai are more 'standardized' in design, and are believed to have been carved ...

While we don’t know how Easter Island’s moai were made, we all but certainly know who made them.Comparing languages, mythology, and art, the scholarly community believes the Rapa Nui people ...

Damaged Moai statues are seen after a wildfire at a local park in Easter Island, Chile, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on October 7, 2022. . (Rapa Nui Municipality/Handout via ...

A number of Easter Island’s iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a wildfire swept through the island earlier this week, the island’s mayor told Reuters on Friday.

Rapa Nui, nom autochtone de l'île de Pâques, témoigne d'un phénomène culturel unique au monde. Installée aux environs de l'an 300, une société d'origine polynésienne a développé ici, en dehors de ...

Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Rapanui people -- remained untouched until recently.

Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and conservationists in this tiny, remote island in the ...