Hancock estimates that the statues on Easter Island, known as Moai heads, are likely much older than the platforms, called Ahu Vinapu, on which many of them sit because the structures exhibit ...

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the island. Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island ... their heads and parts of their bodies. The moai at Ahu ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved ... significance of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape.

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 ...

On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island ... moai stand at attention on a 52-foot-long stone platform—backs to the Pacific, arms at their sides ...

Manchester Museum received a new arrival on Friday (20 March): a moai, commonly known as an Easter Island Head. Moai Hava, on loan from the British Museum will be shown in a new exhibition, Making ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory ... an upright moai was relatively stable; each statue has a low center of gravity thanks to a large base and a narrow head.

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

Easter Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the large stone heads. Hancock thinks settlers first arrived there 12,000 years ago and stayed until Polynesian settlers arrived. He also argues the ...