We got some excellent photos from outside the rock wall that encircles the ... For the fifth must-see moai statue site on Easter Island, I'd like to highlight Ahu Akivi, constructed in the 16th ...

Rapanui artisans carved the moai centuries ago from volcanic rock at a quarry a mile away ... director of the Easter Island Statue Project—but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of ...

ROCK IT, standing up ... this method in rough terrain is 320 feet per day for a 20-ton statue. Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet, five tons and 13 feet, nine tons.

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... Standing below him, you're immediately conscious of the solid basalt rock that he's made out of. Although we see him only ...

and the statues remain sacred vessels. Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter Sunday in 1722, the first European known to visit the island, but only stayed for one day. By the time ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited island ... Standing below him, you're immediately conscious of the solid basalt rock that he's made out of. Although we see him only ...