Island has fascinated historians, researchers, and tourists for centuries. Reaching it is not easy; flights from Europe, with ...

Moai: Two original Easter Island moais: nine feet ... He was only able to move it a few hundred feet before the replica toppled over and the front of the base was chipped. On a second attempt ...

the Easter Islanders successfully transported 288 moai statues to various ahu platforms around the island. We're only proposing that you move one, a virtual one at that. But it's heavy (moais ...

Easter Island was a tough place to make a living. It required heroic efforts. In farming, as in moai moving, the islanders shifted monumental amounts of rock—but into their fields, not out.

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 ...

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 ...

Paul Trachtman Local artists are reviving the island ... moai “walked” with the help of a chief or priest who had mana, or supernatural power. Archaeologists have proposed other methods for ...

"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 Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam.