Easter Island and Gobekli Tepe—be connected by more than coincidence? This video explores striking symbolic parallels between the Moai statues and Gobekli Tepe’s Pillar 43, including shared carvings, ...

Unfortunately, there is no written record (and the oral history is scant ... who has studied the moai for many years, believes the statues may have been created in the image of various paramount ...

History, as much as art ... so I think people were already starving when they were carving these statues. The early moai were thinner, but these last statues have great curved bellies.

"On a crisp September morning, I rushed out to Ahu Tongariki near Rano Raraku in order to see the sun rise over the 15 moai ... have debated the island's history, but it is believed that ...

Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the question of how the Rapanui people transported the multi-ton statues, or moai, from their quarries to their final ceremonial ahu ...

Hunt and Lipo don’t trust oral history accounts of violent conflict ... But many more made it to their platforms intact. The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, ...

Marc Shields hails from West Auckland but is a long-term resident of Rapa Nui - he tells Paddy what life is like on the ...

“Easter Islanders’ ancestors have been unfairly accused by Westerners of being primitive and warlike, for toppling statues - or moai - and for over-exploiting ... “There is a growing body of opinion ...

Standing on the South Pacific island of Rapa Nui are around 900 carved statues. European explorers renamed Rapa Nui as Easter Island, and the monolithic figures - called Moai - became known around ...