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 ...

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... will be transported across the island to eight sacred places before being buried definitively. Liv Heyerdahl, the museum's director and granddaughter ...

Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The 63-square-mile island is located in the southeast Pacific, about 2,200 miles west of Chile. Visiting Easter Island ...

The main quarry for Easter Island's statues ... Most remarkably, at the base of the quarry, moai stand half buried in the slope—up to their chins and noses—from years of erosion.

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... against the backdrop of the Pacific" and others are "buried up to their necks in soil." To see dozens of maoi in ...