Go Backpacking on MSN5 个月
The Stone Faces of Rano Raraku: Uncovering the Secrets of Easter Island’s Moai
Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...
Go Backpacking on MSN6 个月
Exploring Easter Island: Top 5 Moai Statue Sites
From 1100 to 1500 AD, roughly one thousand moai statues were carved from the crater's eastern slope. The statues honor ...
PBS2 个月
Stone Giants
Total number of maoi that were successfully transported to their final ahu locations: 288 (32% of 887) Total number of moai still in the Rano Raraku quarry: 397 (45%) Total number of moai lying ...
National Geographic news1 年
If They Could Only Talk
took his American colleagues to the ancient quarry on Rano Raraku, the island’s southeastern volcano. Looking at the many moai abandoned there in various stages of completion, Rapu explained how ...