An idea suggesting massive stone statues that encircle Easter Island may have been ... statue into a 3D computer model, and then created a 5-ton concrete replica. Last October, on a NOVA ...

An idea suggesting massive stone statues that encircle Easter Island may have been ... photos of one 10-foot-tall statue into a 3D computer model, and then created a 5-ton concrete replica.

For centuries, scientists have tried to solve the mystery of how the colossal stone statues of Easter Island moved ... a 13-foot (4-meter), nine-ton model upright on a wooden sledge and moved ...

Narrator] Most visitors come all the way to Easter Island because ... Terry built a model of a moai out of concrete, carefully mixed to match the fragile density of the ancient statues volcanic ...

The widespread deforestation believed to have been caused by the Rapa Nui people to build the towering Easter Island statues did not result in the population’s catastrophic collapse as held by a ...

Researchers on Easter Island have found a previously undiscovered moai - one of the Pacific island's distinctive stone statues. It was found in a dried-out lake bed around the Rano Raraku volcano ...

Researchers have unearthed a new 5-foot-tall moai statue created by Indigenous Rapa Nui people on Easter Island. Volunteers from three Chilean universities made the discovery on Feb. 21 in a dry ...

Easter Island in the southeast Pacific is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. In February, archaeologists found ...