But could we ever imagine her in one piece now? Standing on the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui are around 900 carved statues. European explorers renamed Rapa Nui as Easter Island, and the ...

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.

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui, named for the Rapa Nui people ... The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. The statues, which are carved ...

The statues were placed on specially built platforms ranged along the coastline, a sacred geography reflecting the tribal divisions of Rapa Nui. Moving these statues would have taken days ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, ...

monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just pieces of the Rapa Nui puzzle. The island has a mysterious past, and it is not clear when ...

He’s a Rapanui, an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped carve some of the hundreds of statues that stud the island’s ...

or Rapa Nui, the name given by the indigenous people to their island in the 1860s. Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who has studied the moai for many years, believes the statues may have been ...

The statues were placed on specially built platforms ranged along the coastline, a sacred geography reflecting the tribal divisions of Rapa Nui. Moving these statues would have taken days ...

Examines theories about how the stone heads of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) were carved and raised. New research challenges previous ideas about the history, innovation and resilience of the Rapa Nui ...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped ... In bringing the Song of Rapa Nui to the world, pianist brings music education home Mahani ...