and after they carved the rock the spirits entered the statues.” Dr Richards and Dr Hamilton are joint directors of the ”Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Landscapes of Construction Project“.

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 ...

According to archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg—who is the founder of UCLA's Easter Island Statue Project and has studied the artifacts for nearly 30 years—about 95 percent of the statues were ...

Island has been a source of fascination for historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not straightforward. Flights from Europe (with at least two layovers) take approximately ...

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 ...

“The island is planted with monstrous great statues, the work of I ... who first spied it on Easter Day 1722, this tiny spit of volcanic rock in the vast South Seas is, even today, the most ...

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.

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the Easter Island statues, but could the stones ... bottom by setting some around it and moving the rock around the immediate area. Not that many people ...

It takes six hours to get to this remote destination that has almost no phone service, rolling green hills and volcanoes.

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 ...

Scientists studying grains of zircon, a tough mineral that forms in volcanic rock, have uncovered ... of mantle dynamics. Easter Island, long famous for its stone statues, now offers another ...