Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...

About one mile east of Rano Raraku volcano is Ahu Tongariki, the largest ahu complex on Easter Island with 15 moai statues. We first saw it from above while walking through Rano Raraku.

The main quarry for Easter ... base their theories on how the moai were transported. Archaeologist Jo Anne Van Tilburg suggests that the moai production in Rano Raraku quarry probably started ...

The following statistics on Easter Island's moai are the results ... Total number of moai still in the Rano Raraku quarry: 397 (45%) Total number of moai lying 'in transit' outside of the Rano ...

By the 19th century all of Easter’s moai had been toppled—by whom ... took his American colleagues to the ancient quarry on Rano Raraku, the island’s southeastern volcano.

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui ... maoi in various stages of being carved, head to the Rano Raraku volcano. Being so close to the maoi makes it feel ...

He later served aboard the USS Mohican, which visited Easter Island in 1886 to collect large stone sculptures, known as moai, for the Smithsonian Institute. Cooke's Smithsonian report repeatedly ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon ... this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai, which created an ...