Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a land full of history and culture.

Researchers believe the giant moai statues on Easter Island were “walked” into place using their own immense weight as ...

What do the large statues mean? And how in the world were they made and moved? There are things we do know about Easter Island, facts that only add to the intrigue of the small, remote location.

They settled both Hawaii and New Zealand, and between 700 and 900, they got to Rapa Nui - and so brought to an end one immense chapter of human history, for Easter Island was possibly the last ...

Hunt and Lipo don’t trust oral history accounts of violent ... The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui—native dancers in body paint, less so.

and the statues remain sacred vessels. Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed here on Easter Sunday in 1722, the first European known to visit the island, but only stayed for one day. By the time ...

a four-tonne basalt statue from the Chilean Pacific territory of Rapa Nui - named Easter Island by European explorers. The statues, known as moai, were carved by the island's indigenous Rapa Nui ...

They settled both Hawaii and New Zealand, and between 700 and 900, they got to Rapa Nui - and so brought to an end one immense chapter of human history, for Easter Island was possibly the last ...