Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, having spent many hours planning to make the most of a week on this ...

But could we ever imagine her in one piece now? Standing on the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui are around 900 carved statues. European explorers renamed Rapa Nui as Easter Island, and the ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island ... How did they move such huge statues without the use of modern tools? And where did the society go?

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...

In Tuki’s native tongue, the island—like the people and the language—is called Rapa Nui. Platforms are called ahu, and the statues that sit on them, moai (pronounced mo-eye). As our jeep ...

The statues were placed on specially built platforms ranged along the coastline, a sacred geography reflecting the tribal divisions of Rapa Nui. Moving these statues would have taken days ...

monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just pieces of the Rapa Nui puzzle. The island has a mysterious past, and it is not clear when ...

He’s a Rapanui, an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped carve some of the hundreds of statues that stud the island’s ...

The statue, known as “Hoa Hakananai’a”, meaning “lost or stolen friend,“ was acquired by the British vessel HMS Topaze in 1868. It is highly revered among the indigenous Rapa Nui people ...

Method: Tied statue on its back to a sledge (sled ... suggested to date are daunting-to-impossible on the rolling Rapa Nui terrain." Moai: Concrete replica with the dimensions of a statistically ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped ... In bringing the Song of Rapa Nui to the world, pianist brings music education home Mahani ...