The largest moai ever sculpted is named “El Gigante” and rests at an angle against the crater. It is 72 feet (21.6 meters) ...

Moai: Theorized for Paro, the largest statue erected on an ahu (Ahu Te Pito Kura), standing approximately 32.45 feet tall and weighing 82 tons. Method:The process involved using two gigantic ...

The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation ...

At Anakena seven potbellied moai stand at attention on a 52-foot-long stone platform—backs to the Pacific, arms at their sides, heads capped with tall pukao of red scoria, another volcanic rock.

The island, known for its 40-foot tall stone heads, or moai, is about 2,300 miles off the coast of Chile. The last time an eclipse was visible there was in 2010. The next will be in 2324.