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, ...

Master wood-carver and island ... head as he stops to lean against it. “It’s hard to imagine,” he says, “how the carvers must have felt when they were told to stop working. They’d been ...

a stark reminder that you are still on Easter Island. The distinct features of the moai, with carvings on their backs, are accented by the red scoria top knots, or pukaos, on their heads.

Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived ... a high of 9,000 by 1550. Moai carving and transport were in ...

The island, home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads known as Moai, has long fascinated archaeologists and historians.