Because of these stone heads, Easter Island has remained one of anthropology’s most cherished mysteries. In a new book, Island of Death (J. J. Augustin; $7), Dr. Werner Wolff, professor of ...

We passed a pair of fallen moai, one facing up with its head broken off ... The post The Stone Faces of Rano Raraku: ...

The famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island ... while the Moai heads are carved from volcanic tuff. The materials were excavated from craters at opposites sides of the island.

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos ... "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal upon which ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... can be rare to find on the island," and another is access to the Manavai Spa, a replica of an ancient stone circle once used to hold water ...

Stone wall at Ahu Vinapu, Easter Island. There is little data to support Heyerdahl. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who is unconvinced by Heyerdahl's theory, notes that "all archaeological, linguistic ...

The mayor of Easter Island has called for motor restrictions to be put in place in the area after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue. Pedro Edmunds Paoa told local media that the incident ...

It's Rapa Nui - Easter Island - the ... In comparison to the head, the torso is only sketched in. The arms are barely modelled at all, and the hands disappear into the stone block of a swelling ...