The purpose of the moai remains a mystery to researchers. A 2019 study published in PLOS One, a journal by the Public Library of Science, found that the monuments were often constructed near ...

Records show the monuments predate the World Heritage-listed giant stone moai figures on Rapa Nui – also called Easter ...

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 ...

Rapa Nui’s megaliths are called moai, and 15 of them stand with their backs to the Pacific Ocean at a site known as ahu Tongarikia. Visitors congregate as close as permitted to the statues ...

Capturing the moai is what photographers flock here for ... You won’t be able to enter the monument's grounds, but it makes no difference if you have a 100mm or larger lens.