Paul Trachtman Local artists are reviving the island's traditions. Tattooist Andreas "Panda" Pakarati displays a wooden moai ... the fingers or anything.” Then he points to a few broken heads ...

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.

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island ... their heads and parts of their bodies. The moai at Ahu Nau Nau are among the best-preserved on the island because, after ...

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 – mysterious stone figures that each weigh ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.