Others stand upright with their head and shoulders above ground while their bodies remain buried ... spectacular sites on Easter Island. Rano Raraku may have more moai, but most are partially ...

with a concentration on Easter Island's southeast coast. Here, the moai are more 'standardized' in design, and are believed to have been carved, transported, and erected between AD 1400 and 1600.

This 1950s footage captures a captivating exploration of Easter Island, focusing on its iconic moai statues ... Email us at [email protected] if you have questions about the footage and are ...

"On a crisp September morning, I rushed out to Ahu Tongariki near Rano Raraku in order to see the sun rise over the 15 moai." Jon Canfield Easter ... historians have debated the island's history ...

There is no place in the world like Easter ... have long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive moai, monolithic statues carved from volcanic rocks that are found across the island.

But the art which adorns Easter Island’s landscape, volcanoes and statues ... “They were a people who saw themselves as connected to the landscape, which they carved and marked as they did their own ...