Others stand upright with their head and shoulders above ground while their bodies remain buried ... spectacular sites on Easter Island. Rano Raraku may have more moai, but most are partially ...

This 1950s footage captures a captivating exploration of Easter Island, focusing on its iconic moai statues ... Email us at [email protected] if you have questions about the footage and are ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter ... or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu sites around the island. In many cases, the optimum route of transport would have meant ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an ...

But the art which adorns Easter Island’s landscape ... which they carved and marked as they did their own bodies and the moai statues. “These people must have had a sophisticated and successful ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island. It’s a tiny, windswept place, famed for its colossal Moai ... Researchers have created a pacemaker ...

“The island is planted with monstrous great statues, the work of I don’t know what race, today degenerate or vanished; its great remains an enigma.” Named Easter ... moai. (He and Van ...

"On a crisp September morning, I rushed out to Ahu Tongariki near Rano Raraku in order to see the sun rise over the 15 moai." Jon Canfield Easter ... historians have debated the island's history ...