Manchester Museum received a new arrival on Friday (20 March): a moai, commonly known as an Easter Island Head. Moai Hava, on loan from the British Museum will be shown in a new exhibition, Making ...

Now, the remains are being returned to the island by the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway. Easter Island is a remote ... particularly its hundreds of moai-monumental statues of human figures ...

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 ...

Archaeologist and Easter Island expert Jo Anne Van Tilburg believes the moai were built to honor ancestors and chieftains, or for ritual use to commune with gods, she told PBS. National Geographic ...

Easter Island is home to approximately 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered across the island. Hancock argues that the island was settled, and the statues were built about 12,000 ...

Easter Island is known for these iconic Moai statues, as well as mysteries surrounding the inhabitants of the island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

there are plenty of free activities to enjoy on Easter Island. From exploring moai statues and stargazing to visiting the Rapa Nui Museum, your journey to this extraordinary place promises to be ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, did one of the things he loves ...

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 ...

Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive moai ... with Easter Island stops. Rapa Nui National Park covers half of the island, and feels like an "open-air museum," Lonely ...