Between A.D. 1000 and 1600, 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 ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

The imposing statues that line the coast of Easter Island have been an enigma ... The volcanic stone figures, called moai in the island’s native Polynesian language, are understood to have ...