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Scientists just unearthed a new statue on Easter Island. Take a look inside one of the most remote inhabited places in the world.
The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. The statues, which are carved from volcanic rock, stand at 13 feet high and weigh 10 metric tons (around 22,000 pounds ...
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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 ...
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If They Could Only Talk
Under the same moon and stars Tuki sat on the sand and gazed directly before him at the colossal human statues—the moai. Carved centuries ago from volcanic tuff, they’re believed to embody the ...
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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 ancestors, chiefs, and important figures in Rapa Nui society. Rano Raraku ...
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Stone Giants
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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IU repatriates human remains to people of Easter Island
A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...
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Your Theories
It may have been easier to move them uncarved, but our experiment showed very nicely that fully-carved statues can be moved with no damage to them at all. Our moai got safely to his ahu without ...
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Creative by Design: Faith Academy students reimagine iconic artworks
IMPERIAL— Faith Academy students displayed 98 pieces of artwork for parents, families, and teachers on Friday, March 14, at ...
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Rapa Nui National Park
From the 10th to the 16th century this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an unrivalled cultural landscape that continues to fascinate people ...
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Exploring Easter Island, one of the world's most remote inhabited islands
Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island. These monoliths are just pieces of the Rapa Nui ...
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Review Of The Moai SLA 3D Printer
Yet today you can better printers for a fraction of that and $1,300 will buy you an open source Moai SLA printer as a kit. [3D Printing Nerd] took a field trip to MatterHackers to check the ...
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IU completes its first international repatriation of human remains to Easter Island
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