They draw you in. They-- they make ... Those three elements are, over time, destroying the moai. These statues may look as though they're solid stone, but they're actually quite porous.

At latest count on the island, there are 1,043 complete moai, enormous statues with prominent heads made from volcanic stone. Contrary to popular belief, they aren’t just heads—they have ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and ...

many travellers come here seeking the mystery hidden in the legendary moai statues. These stone giants, carved from volcanic rocks, draw attention. The largest of them, Paro, is 10 metres tall and ...

Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who has studied the moai for many years, believes the statues may have been created in the image of various paramount chiefs. They were not individualized ...

Tattooist Andreas "Panda" Pakarati displays a wooden moai ... statues are even more imposing than the landscape, but there is a rich tradition of island arts in forms less solid than stone ...

This diagram shows the excavation history of Moai 156, Rano Raraku quarry, Rapa Nui. The red dashed line is the estimated surface when petroglyphs, or rock art, were applied to the statue's back. This ...

In addition, volcanic tuffs were deposited in the volcanic crater, which is the primary stone used for carving the monolithic Moai statues. Most of the statues are located along the Rano Raraku ...

beauty and the historic colossal stone statues. Strahan will also investigate how climate change is affecting the island's locals and the environment, threatening the moai and how plastics in the ...

When it comes to Easter Island’s towering stone heads, there’s now one ... Archaeologists studied the location of the statues, or moai, and the platforms on which many of them stand, known ...

“This is much more than a stone,” he added. Easter Island, known as Rapa Nui in the local language, is famous for the “moai” statues that dot its landscape. Islanders carved the statues to ...