The Easter Island statues, or moai, show the amazing skills of the Rapa Nui people. Between 1100 and 1650, they made nearly 900 huge stone sculptures. These statues, weighing 10 to 12 metric tons ...

Stone wall at Ahu Vinapu, Easter Island. There is little data to support Heyerdahl. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who is unconvinced by Heyerdahl's theory, notes that "all archaeological, linguistic ...

Yet when Dutch explorers landed on Easter Sunday in 1722, they met a Stone Age culture ... a limited water supply. The island lacks a sewer system and a place to put the swelling volume of ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

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He's a stone being ... in a quarry in Easter Island which is over 70 feet (20m) tall - how they ever would have erected it goodness only knows. And it does put me in mind of medieval cathedral ...