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Easter Island, Spanish Isla de Pascua, also called Rapa Nui, Chilean dependency

Easter Island, Spanish Isla de Pascua, also called Rapa Nui, Chilean dependency
in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the easternmost outpost of the Polynesian island world. It is famous for its giant stone statues.

Easter Island

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Moai statues

Moai statues are massive megaliths at Easter Island, and these are

Moai statues Moai statues are massive megaliths at Easter Island, and these
what this island is famous for. The moais were built in approximately 1400 - 1650 A.D. by the natives of this island also known as Rapa Nui.

There are around 1000 statues, up to 86 tons tons in weight and 10 m in height, though average is around half of that. 95% of the moais were carved from the volcano Rano Raraku.

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Moai statues

Moai statues were built to honor chieftain or other important people

Moai statues Moai statues were built to honor chieftain or other important
who had passed away. They were placed on rectangular stone platforms called ahu, which are tombs for the people that the statues represented.
The mind boggles that humans from a stone-age civilization could carve such massive statues from rock and transport them around the island, one thousand years ago. A stunning archaeological discovery was made in May 2012, where archaeologists excavated around the statues to discover the Easter Island heads have bodies!

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Moai statues

One of the biggest Easter Island mysteries is how stone age

Moai statues One of the biggest Easter Island mysteries is how stone
tribes could succeed in transporting 50+ ton moai statues kilometers across hilly terrain. There are several transportation theories, some of which are more generally accepted than others.