These statues, often called “Easter Island heads,” actually have full bodies ... Each Moai statue is unique, showing the person it honors. They were seen as symbols of important figures ...

I didn’t expect to see its famous moai statues ... I would have to drive through a huge herd of cows to reach them. But the most surprising thing about my visit to Easter Island, known locally ...

Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano ... of even the smallest moai, the statues were carved ...

The statues, known as moai, were carved by the island's indigenous ... of petroglyphs on its back that almost certainly were not part of the original statue, so you have a second layer of history ...

The mayor of Easter ... statues were carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui people to embody the spirit of a prominent ancestor. About 1,000 of the figures - known as moai - exist on the island ...

What would have been the best way to move Easter ... were known to move moai at the request of those who wanted them on their family land or ahu. Method: Tied statue on its back to a sledge ...

The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island ... have to learn that archaeology isn’t their enemy,” says Rapu. Decades ago he himself helped get the moai at Anakena ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the most remote inhabited ... of this later ritual are present in our statue. They're carved on the back. They must have been added several hundred years after ...

“It is the time Egyptian identity comes back home. We are not asking the British Museum to return the 100,000 Egyptian pieces they have ... as Easter Island in English. The first moai, Hoa ...

Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is one of the world's most remote places ...

the people of Easter Island, a small island isolated in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, carved about 900 massive statues from an ancient volcano. These austere-faced giants, called moai ...