All That's Interesting on MSN19 小时
Obsidian Blades Reveal Easter Island Inhabitants Made Contact With South Americans 1,000 ...
Known for its mysterious stone Moai statues, Easter Island has a somewhat enigmatic history, largely due to the fact that ...
PBS3 个月
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 ...
Go Backpacking on MSN6 个月
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 ...
National Geographic news4 年
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 ...
PBS8 年
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 ...
MercoPress6 年
British Museum asked to return Eastern Island monolith
It is one of roughly 900 Moai sculptures produced by local islanders in between the 11th and 17th centuries. Each carved monument depicts a glorified figure from the Rapa Nui community ...
University of Manchester3 年
Outsiders blamed for Easter Island’s historic demise
“Easter Islanders’ ancestors have been unfairly accused by Westerners of being primitive and warlike, for toppling statues - or moai - and for over-exploiting the island’s natural resources,” she said ...